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Ottawa pauses preventive health task force amid review over breast cancer screening recommendations

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Federal Health Minister Mark Holland is temporarily suspending the work of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care .

The task force has come under fire for not recommending breast cancer screening for women under 50 .

The external review panel has finished gathering evidence and is now finalizing its proposals to “modernize and improve” the task force.

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