Change in mammography guidelines questioned

In November 2009 a national firestorm was set off by a report from the US government changing the recommendations for breast cancer screening by reducing the frequency of screening mammograms and eliminating them completely for 40 year old women.  Both patient advocacy groups and professional societies questioned the outcome.

Now a report looks critically at how the group came to their conclusions and finds significant deviations from proper methods of literature review.

Read the details below but the headline tells it all.

Change in mammography guidelines questioned