Minister, I want to congratulate your government for recently agreeing to launch an expedited review of Canada's breast screening guidelines through the Canadian task force on preventive health care.
Up to now, for several years, experts, patients, physicians and researchers have called the current guidelines “outdated” and “dangerous” and have called for the immediate intervention in the review process. They've noted that problems with the existing guidelines are driven by a strong anti-screening agenda by task force leadership and the persistent use of 60-year-old studies. We note that recently Ontario noted that women aged 40 to 49 who have mammograms are 44% less likely to die of breast cancer than those who don't.
Minister, what steps, if any, is your government taking to address those concerns?