I'm going to state something from one of our witnesses earlier. We had testimony that the Canadian task force argues that screening at 40 causes unnecessary stress that comes from callbacks. However, in the case of a life-threatening, ulterior diagnosis that affects your physical, mental and emotional health, while it was stressful waiting for the results from the biopsy, it would have been even more stressful and downright dangerous to delay screening and a possible diagnosis.
I'm sorry to disagree with you both, but I think women's lives are important and I think we need to revamp this task force to ensure that we have individuals on the task force who understand that I'm a woman and I can handle it. I can handle that news. I don't mind being called back if it means I'm going to be alive to tell my children and grandchildren that I survived breast cancer.
I'm not trying to put you guys down. I don't know where you're getting your research, but all of the evidence points to what the witnesses we've had said about how breast cancer must be diagnosed early in order to save lives.
If there's history in the family of breast cancer, why are we waiting?