Breast Cancer Screening in Primary Care: A Call for Development and Validation of Patient-Oriented Shared Decision-Making Tools

The latest recommendations on breast cancer screening in women from 40 to 49 years charge primary care providers (PCPs) with completing shared decision-making with women about screening mammography. However, there is a lack of supportive materials accompanying this directive. No easy-to-use risk assessment tool is available for PCPs to stratify women's risk. Neither is an evidence-based patient-centered way to assess values surrounding mammography available. To provide the highest quality care for women of 40-49 years, further research should clarify ways to apply risk assessment and values clarification to individual women.