New breast cancer screening guidelines put women at risk

No Canadian woman should ever lose her life simply because she wasn’t screened for breast cancer in time.

It’s inaccurate for Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor to say that the federal government has no responsibility for the new breast cancer screening guidelines, writes NDP critic Don Davies.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NDP MP DON DAVIES

April 29, 2019

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in Canadian women. On any given day, 72 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 14 Canadian women will die from it. Over the course of a lifetime, one in eight Canadian women will develop breast cancer and one in 31 will lose...

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