This is about establishing national standards for systematic breast cancer screening for women who are 50 years of age or older. It goes back to the need to provide more information. Earlier, a number of witnesses stressed the extent to which we have no uniform standards across Canada. In some provinces or territories, women do not automatically have the information or the access to diagnostic testing or to specialized health care professionals who are able to provide appropriate advice. That would allow all women, including those with higher density breast tissue, to find out what that density is and to be screened earlier and more effectively.
