Conflicting Mammogram Guidelines Leave Women Uncertain About Screening Age

Over 320,000 U.S. women diagnosed with breast cancer annually; it remains the second-leading cancer cause of death despite declining mortality rates.

Each year, more than 320,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer, yet the question of when to begin screening for it has no single authoritative answer. Major health organizations — drawing on the same body of evidence — have arrived at meaningfully different conclusions about the right age to start mammograms and how often to have them, leaving women and their doctors to navigate a landscape of competing guidance. The disagreement is not born of negligence but of a genuine tension at the heart of preventive medicine: the same test that saves lives can also generate false alarms th

Conflicting Mammogram Guidelines Leave Women Uncertain About Screening Age

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