Task force made a bad call with mammography recommendations

It has been an interesting week in the world of cancer screening. The U.S. Preventive Service Task Force set off a firestorm with new recommendations regarding mammography.

They recommended delaying the onset of mammography screening until age 50, and reducing the frequency of mammography to every other year.

The public was left confused and even enraged. Opponents of health care reform found an opening and used it to land some jabs and uppercuts on the jaws of health care reform. The Secretary of Health and Human Services attempted to distance herself from her own task force, leading to a wave of criticism she was putting...