Cancer screening

The Senate will take up debate on its health care reform bill this week. At the center of that discussion will be how best to cut costs and still maintain good care. What happens when the science clashes with people’s feelings about their own care?

Dr. Andrea Price, an OBGYN, says some of her patients are confused and dismayed by these new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. We hear what she recommends.

A government-backed physicians’ group, the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force, recommended this week that women delay their yearly breast exams until age 50. The recommendation has quickly sparked a national debate.

Most women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40, according to new U.S. guidelines. International guidelines also start at age 50. Jeb Sharp talks with David Dershaw at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. From PRI’s The World.