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Washington (AFP) - All women should get mammogram screening for breast cancer starting from age 40, rather than 50, an influential US health body announced Tuesday, a move it said could save thousands of lives.

The influential U.S. Preventive Task Force issue a draft of its new breast cancer screening guidelines. They're now recommending women start younger, amid a rise in breast cancer rates.

At a health-screening event in Sarasota, Florida, people gathered in a parking lot and waited their turn for blood pressure or diabetes checks. The event was held in Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood, a historically Black community. Local Tracy Green, 54, joined the line outside a pink-and-white bus that offered free mammograms.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a regulation in early March 2023 that updates mammography reporting requirements. The new regulation goes into effect on Sept. 10, 2024, and will require that all women receive information about breast density following a mammogram. It will also require they be told in…

The Dragons' Den star has now received the all clear from cancer, and has come forward with her 'cautionary tale' so others don't ignore their invitations too.

Kelly Hoppen has opened up about having been diagnosed with breast cancer last year and is urging others to attend mammogram appointments after having 'ignoring' invitations for years herself

Kelly, 63, has said she could not believe her "own stupidity" after ignoring routine mammogram invitations

She had been ignoring routine mammogram invitations for eight years

In the past fortnight, I've learned some interesting things about my breasts. And unaccustomed as I am to featuring this body part in my written work, I was so foolishly surprised by some of them that I thought it worth sharing, writes Annabel Crabb.