The change in mammogram guidelines

Friday, March 4, 2011 - 22:40 in Health & Medicine

After a federal panel pulled back its recommendations for screenings, a debate continues to rage about the wisdom or risk of it.The question seemed simple enough: Should women in their 40s be advised to get routine mammograms in the hopes of catching breast cancers while they are still small and, presumably, easier to treat? But the more an expert panel of doctors, nurses and preventive health specialists studied the data, the harder it was to come up with an answer.