Should Any Women Have Regular Screening Mammograms After Age 74?

Because breast cancer, like all other types of cancer, is primarily a disease of aging, your risk of developing the disease increases the older you get.A tiny replication error on the cellular level in your mid-40s can snowball into a breast tumor that you'll find during a routine mammogram several years later.Although the risk continues to grow as we age, the prime time to be diagnosed with breast cancer is between the ages of 50 and 69, according to data from the American Cancer Society.