Top 100 list and a new visible initiative, and a leading panel reverses itself and now recommends earlier mammogram screenings for women. Youre watching getting answers. Im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. The new mammogram guidelines come as we kick off a Womens Health month in may. The Us Preventive Services task force is now encouraging women to start getting screened at the age of 40. Their previous recommendation was to start at 50. Joining us live now to talk about this and other Health Headlines is doctor peter chinhong, ucsf Infectious Diseases specialist doctor chinhong, nice to have you on the show. Thanks for having me on, kristen. All right. So this groups new guideline is a ten year difference. Thats pretty sizable from 50 to 40 right. Why the change . I think some of the changes really, given the overall, increase in, in malignancies and cancers in the younger age groups, this is not just only seen in Breast Cancer, but in other cancers like colon cancer. So what are y
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