It impacts it significantly.
We look at provinces. Dense Breasts Canada compares all of the provinces in terms of optimal breast cancer practices. We looked at five different key practices. You have a province like Quebec that scores zero out of five. Then you have a province like Nova Scotia that scores five. Most of them score two out of five. That means that women in a province like Quebec do not have equal access to finding cancer early. It's a postal code lottery. We want to see all women in Canada have the same access for that.
We found that, even in provinces that do self-refer at 40, the family doctors are still dissuading women from getting screened. The task force guidelines are still playing a key role, regardless of self-referral. We're also finding with this inequality that there's confusion across the country. We did a survey of 2,500 women and 42% of them did not know what age screening began in their province.
Beyond the confusion, we also have women on social media all of the time—