Panel to Advise on Mammograms - Los Angeles Times
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A government panel of cancer experts agreed to help educate women in their 40s about whether to have regular mammograms, but did not issue definitive guidelines on the value of the test for
women in that age group. “We will not be able to say the exact age at which a woman should start mammography,” said Barbara K. Rimer of Duke University Medical Center who chairs the
18-member National Cancer Advisory Board. Research doesn’t provide answers, she said. MORE TO READ