In order to put the discussion of women's breasts on their political agendas, it can usually take, quite easily, a Washington scandal.
However, it was a routine update of breast-cancer-screening guidelines that was conducted in November, by a government panel of medical advisers, easily stirring up a furor.
Women are advised to begin routine mammograms at age fifty instead of at age forty, as well as to switch their screening to biennial screening, if it would normally have been a yearly routine.
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