The new breast cancer screening guidelines are not enough to save Black women

A breast surgical oncologist and breast radiologist weigh in

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new guidelines to offer mammography from age 40 will save many lives.

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Vivian Jolley Bea, MD
Chief, Breast Surgical Oncology,
Director, Breast Program, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital; Assistant professor of surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Kemi Babagbemi, MD
Vice chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
Department of Radiology, Associate professor of clinical radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine; Associate attending radiologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
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Vivian Jolley Bea, MD
Chief, Breast Surgical Oncology,
Director, Breast Program, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital; Assistant professor of surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine
Kemi Babagbemi, MD
Vice chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,
Department of Radiology, Associate professor of clinical radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine; Associate attending radiologist, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

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