STAT April 30, 2024
A national advisory panel significantly lowered the age recommendations for screening mammography on Tuesday, saying that all women should start breast cancer screening at age 40, rather than 50, and continue every other year until age 74.
The previous recommendations from the panel, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, suggested that women make an individual choice on getting mammography from ages 40 to 49.
The new guidelines, first published last year as a draft open for public comment, are propelled in part by concern over rising rates of breast cancer among younger women.
“More women in their 40s are developing breast cancer,” said John Wong, one of the task force members and a professor of medicine at Tufts University....
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