An influential panel of medical experts suggested, in 2009, that women needed fewer mammograms than had long been recommended. The panel recently issued an update of its guidelines, but the basic advice—which applies to women with an average risk of breast cancer—was unchanged. Constance Lehman (Mass General) is quoted.
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