An expert panel said lowering the age recommendation from 50 to 40 could make a difference as more and more women in their 40s are being diagnosed with breast cancer.
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00:40 We are calling again for additional research
00:45 to understand whether and how additional screening,
00:49 whether it be with MRI, ultrasound, or something else,
00:53 might be beneficial for helping reduce that higher
00:56 risk for breast cancer and detecting breast cancer
01:00 at an earlier, more treatable stage.
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01:10 For the very first time, we could model health outcomes
01:14 specific to Black women.
01:17 And what we find is that benefit that we talked about
01:22 for screening all women starting at age 40 every other year
01:28 has even more benefit for women who are Black.
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