Researchers have concluded that providing better access to health care may lead to the overuse of mammograms for women who regularly see a primary care physician and who have a limited life expectancy. The cautionary note from researchers at UTMB is that screening women in this category could subject them "to greater risks of physical, emotional and economic suffering." Dr. Alai Tan, a senior biostatistician in UTMB's Sealy Center on Aging and lead author of the study, said that “there has been little systematic attempt to define guidelines that would help determine when breast cancer screening might not be appropriate or overused.” News of the findings also appears in BioPortfolio, Medical Xpress and Health Canal.