Panel to Advise on Mammograms
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A government panel of cancer experts agreed to help educate women in their 40s about whether to have regular mammograms, but did not issue definitive guidelines on the value of the test for women in that age group. “We will not be able to say the exact age at which a woman should start mammography,” said Barbara K. Rimer of Duke University Medical Center who chairs the 18-member National Cancer Advisory Board. Research doesn’t provide answers, she said.
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