Certainly, I spoke to that a bit in my speech, but it really does matter.
Even though, on the ground, it seems like there is access, when the task force says, “Don't screen,” that is what family physicians take as what they should be recommending to their patients. It creates a bias, so when patients go for shared decision-making to their family physician, the family physician is already predisposed to say, “You know what, the risks probably outweigh the benefits.”
It impacts the counselling that patients get. It impacts the ability to access across our country, because some provinces do screen, some provinces don't, and some are at age 40. It also has far-reaching impacts in terms of the way that women see it. They get mixed messages. They're not sure what to do, because they hear they shouldn't screen and their province says they should screen.
Even though there are provincial guidelines that say we can screen, it's really critical that we have strong national guidance for our patients, for our doctors and for our provinces.