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Guidelines Delay Start of Mammograms to Age 50, Then Every Other Year
MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women don't need to start having mammograms to screen for breast cancer until they're 50, and they only need to have those exams every other year, new government guidelines suggest.
Also, breast self-exams, which women have been urged to do routinely, have not helped lower the death rate from breast cancer, the guidelines add.
Not all agree with the revised recommendations, however.
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