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The new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on screening for breast cancer1 were front-page news for several consecutive days, and they sent the Obama administration scrambling to reassure the public that these guidelines were not a prelude to the rationing of health care, notwithstanding Republican critics' assertions to the contrary.The most controversial recommendation of the Task Force is to delay the onset of routine screening mammography from 40 to 50 years of age. Many observers were concerned that this move away from intensive screening might signal a shift away from the war on cancer, posing a . . .
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