#Gaslighting #screen40 #40not50

CTFPHC | GECSSP The US used 'new and inclusive science' in lowering the screening age to 40. Yet CTFPHC | GECSSP does not recommend screening in the 40s. In 🇨🇦 ~600 women die every year and thousands continue to suffer because of later stage diagnoses. The US acted to save lives.@markhollandlib

CTFPHC | GECSSP CTFPHC | GECSSP If racialized women tend to be diagnosed at younger ages than white women, esp. in the 40’s and mortality is higher in Black women, help us understand why you recommend not screening at age 40 but instead shared decision making? Not realistic is it? It’s unethical !

This incredible woman is fighting stage 4 breast cancer and suffering the unimaginable. How many more of us need to fall through the cracks because of nonsensical guidelines? #40not50 #cdnpoli David Fisman @markhollandlib The College of Family Physicians of Canada Health Canada and PHAC

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shira farber David Fisman @markhollandlib The College of Family Physicians of Canada Health Canada and PHAC I think Dr. Martin Yaffe has the best analogy I’ve heard so far: “If a Canadian wide-body jet were to crash because of maintenance problems, killing all 400 people on board, it would be seen as a national disaster and would occupy the news for weeks. If this happened each year, it

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In 🇨🇦 CTFPHC | GECSSP continues to prioritize old and flawed data. CTFPHC | GECSSP continues to perpetuate racial disparities by not lowering the screening age to 40. CTFPHC | GECSSP guidelines lead to needless deaths. @markhollandlib Dr. Stephen Ellis Peter Julian 🇨🇦 Laila Goodridge #cdnpoli

Expertise and common sense are needed while waiting years to decades for more research. We know screening decreases mortality from breast cancer. All women, but esp black women should be offered screening at 40. @markhollandlib Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס Laila Goodridge Peter Julian 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

Is this a farce? The form they created is not user friendly and their campaign has shifted to health providers, not patients, families and CDN women, as they initially claimed. #cdnpoli @markhollandlib Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס Lisa Hepfner Leah ProudLakota (she/her) ellynjane

Asking for more evidence specific to black women when there is plenty of evidence that early detection saves lives is part of the “science denial playbook”. Industries like tobacco and fossil fuels have used this tactic to stall decisions, too.

Nope. The Key Takeaway is don’t screen women 40-49. “we suggest not to systematically screen with mammography” The rhetoric around personal choice contradicts what you know to be true. Family doctors adhering to CTFPHC | GECSSP will talk their patients out of screening.

In Canada 17% BC in White and 26.3% in Black women are diagnosed at stage III and IV. Canadian age-specific mortality rate for women 40-49 in Black is 1.4x higher than White women. In US the death rate is 40% higher in Black women overall and 2X more under age 50. Anna Wilkinson

In response to CTFPHC | GECSSP post about wanting more research on Black women. @markhollandlib Lisa Hepfner Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס Leah ProudLakota (she/her) #cdnpoli

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Would be interesting to know how many Canadian family doctors actually have/make time to "objectively consider" the science of TF recos. My guess is they "trust" TF as an informing body, therefore sentencing patients to later-stage diagnoses or death. Manitoba's NDP Uzoma Asagwara Wab Kinew

Already happening. Just look at the stories on densebreastscanada.ca Women denied requisitions in their 40s, and diagnosed with advanced cancers. Also women not told about their breast density and/or denied supplemental screening, and diagnosed with avoidable advanced cancers.

And here we are finally !! #screening at 40 through the Ontario breast screening program !

It’s essential that the patient voice be heard in these conversations. These women were harmed by the guidelines, and yet CTFPHC | GECSSP thinks that they don’t need to be updated. They need to look at the outcome of the guidelines, not just randomized trials.

If you live in Ontario, you can book your #mammogram without a requisition from your doctor. Call the #Ontario breast screening program today 1-800-668-9304. Thank you to Omar Adrian for this amazing video and all the advocacy that helped bring this lifesaving change about #ONPOLI