Now that the provincial election is done, let’s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And why Quebec women are being shortchanged.
A year after the Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) recommended adding women 45 to 49 to Quebec’s breast cancer screening program, that age group remains excluded, as La Presse recently reported.
Quebec has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the country, yet we remain the only province where a medical prescription is required for women between the ages of 45 and 49 to access screening.