Excluding experts doesn’t make sense.
Ontario is lowering the age for regular, publicly funded breast-cancer screenings to 40 from 50, mirroring a similar recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force last May. Now, the...
Prostate-cancer screening: Guideline reflects lack of knowledgeable expert input.
The last guideline on prostate-cancer screening was published in 2014. At the time, the task force approached the Canadian Urologic Association (CUA) and asked that it provide an expert panel...
Breast-cancer screening: Balancing harm vs. risks
One would expect that the priority of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care on breast-cancer screening would be to recommend practices that would maximally reduce mortality and morbidity...
We have a tool to help prevent suicide during pregnancy and postpartum. Why does the task force recommend against using it?
In 2022, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released recommendations against using a tool (the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale – EPDS) to screen for depression during pregnancy and...
Doctors Raise Concerns Over Cancer Screening Guidelines
In Ottawa, medical experts from various specialities to discuss the need for the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care to reform its cancer screening guidelines. The doctors say the...
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