Komen for the Cure, which is the world's largest breast cancer organization, condemned the task force's recommendation and have been united in their message that women can decrease their chances of dying from the disease by beginning annual mammograms at 40.
Recall the collective angst over and instantaneous political reaction to U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's retrenchment in late 2009 on breast cancer screening.
Back in 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force another government-run panel of independent experts revised its breast-cancer screening recommendations by telling women to wait until age 50 before undergoing routine mammograms.
Two weeks ago a federal inter-agency task force issued a report emphasizing the need to redouble research efforts focused on the prevention of breast cancer.