The independent panel of medical experts had previously recommended those screenings to start at age 50.
6:00The United States Preventative Services Task Force is now recommending that women should get a mammogram at least every other year, starting at age 40.
Doctors say the updated guidance comes as they are seeing younger women diagnosed with more aggressive forms of breast cancer. Director of Women's Health for Suffolk County at NYU Langone Dr. Melissa Fana says the new advice is about avoiding confusion. "Now we know that multiple medical societies are consistent in the message that younger women, starting at the age of 40, should have mammography," Fana says. "I would say have a mammogram every year until the age 74 and even beyond 74."
The new guidance is also about addressing health disparities from screening and treatment for women of color. Doctors say Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. Early screening is aimed at reducing that gap.
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