Doctors are in uproar over a recommendation to raise the age of breast cancer screening, saying that more women will die from the disease, which claims 40,000 lives each year.

The Preventative Services Task Force of scientists and researchers recommended that breast cancer screening in women should begin at the age of 50 instead of 40.

And it further said that women between the ages of 50 to 74 should be screened every two years instead of annually.

"Screening saves lives, and cutting back on screening would cost lives," said Dr Timothy Johnson, an oncologist at Holyoke Medical Center in Massachusetts.

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