US panel recommends starting breast cancer screenings at age 40.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued draft guidelines recommending that most women should get screened for breast cancer every other year starting at age 40, a decade earlier than previously recommended, which could save 19% more lives. The panel's guidance applies to cisgender women and all other people assigned female at birth who are at average risk of breast cancer. The new guidance also aims to ease the disparities in breast cancer death rates between Black women and white women.
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