In Canada | Breast cancer: why get screened at 40? — 98.5 Montreal

Faced with rising rates of breast cancer among increasingly younger women, the Canadian Cancer Society recommends screening starting at age 40.

In Quebec, the screening program is available to patients aged 50 years and older.

Listen to Dr. Dominic Sinnott, surgical oncologist and traumatologist, director of the breast clinic at Sacré-Coeur Hospital and author of Cancer Day by Day and Breast Cancer: Everything and More.