Ontario lowers mammogram self-referral age to 40 years old from 50

Women successful their 40s tin present publication a mammogram in Ontario without needing a doctor’s referral.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced past twelvemonth that the state would little the property for bosom crab screening self-referrals from 50 to 40, and she says contiguous the alteration has present taken effect.

Eligible radical tin telephone any Ontario Breast Screening Program determination to publication an appointment, and a database of sites tin beryllium recovered on Ontario Health’s website.

The state is spending astir $20 cardinal to summation the availability of appointments and bid further staff.

The authorities estimates that of the 1 cardinal women betwixt the ages of 40 and 49 who tin present self-refer for mammograms, astir 305,000 volition question retired the screening.

People betwixt the ages of 30 and 69 who suffice arsenic high-risk, specified arsenic those with a household past of bosom crab oregon who transportation definite genes known to summation the hazard of bosom cancer, tin already get regular mammograms and bosom MRIs.

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