All women should start getting regular mammograms at age 40, an influential advisory panel said, in a stark revision of standard medical advice.

“The new advice comes as breast cancer diagnoses rise among younger women and mortality rates among Black women remain persistently high.

Alarmed by an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among younger women and persistently high death rates among Black women in particular, health experts on Tuesday offered a stark revision to the standard medical advice on mammograms.”

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