Women should begin getting mammogram screenings for breast cancer at age 40, an influential United States health panel has advised, in a move the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said could help save thousands of lives.The panel’s update on Tuesday reverses a controversial recommendation made in 2009, when it said biennial screening should start a decade later – at age 50 – unless women and their doctors decided earlier checks were appropriate.The task force, a group of independent experts appointed by the US Department of Health and Human Services, said that while it previously recommended women in their 40s make individual choices about when to start screening, the new guidance could result in 19 percent more lives being saved.
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