Screening for Breast Cancer

To the Editor Individualized, risk-based approaches to cancer screening aspire to resolve shortcomings of the traditional population- and age-based approach. Yet, until now, reliable evidence was not available to appropriately evaluate whether tailoring breast cancer screening according to cancer risk can increase benefits and reduce harms compared with the current approach. We therefore commend the WISDOM (Women Informed to Screen Depending on Measures of Risk) study, which provided crucial ins...

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