Experts lower recommended age for mammograms from 50 to 40

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Experts lower recommended age for mammograms from 50 to 40
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Experts are revising guidance on when women should get screened for breast cancer. As NickJCaloway reports, the change in recommendations could save countless lives.

Olivia Summer Hutcherson has been dancing her whole life. Now, she's passing on that passion to young people in Bergen County."I've gone through three rounds of cancer, which developed into stage four, metastatic breast cancer," she said."I always love to say, 'the show must go on,'" she said.New mammogram guidelines from U.S.

"Patients that have breast cancer diagnosed at an earlier stage do better. There's really no way to argue with that," said Dr. Deena Graham, a medical oncologist at Hackensack University Medical Center.

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