Women should start being screened for breast cancer at age 40 instead of waiting until 50, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now says.
, published May 3, call for women at higher-than-average risk for breast cancer to undergo a risk assessment by age 25 to determine if screening before age 40 is needed.
effectively makes the Affordable Care Act mandate apply to the 2002 task force recommendations on mammography. In those recommendations, the task force gave a B grade to screening mammograms every 1 or 2 years starting at age 40 without an age limit. The task force called for more research to address the underlying causes of elevated breast cancer death rates among Black women.
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