Cindy Jarrett is a breast cancer survivor. She was 44-years-old when she was diagnosed and it was a mammogram that found it.

"It came without warning symptoms and had it not been for the mammogram you know my outcome may have been completely different," Cindy Jarrett said.

Cindy is also a volunteer for Susan G. Komen For The Cure Greater Evansville, and has walked in the past 12 races. The race back in September had a huge turnout. They had 991 survivors in their survivor parade and 303 of those women were diagnosed between the age of 40-49. That's a third of the participants.

The new report from the US Preventative Task Force recommends women start getting mammograms in their 50's not 40's.

"As a survivor, I'm personally outraged that someone would come up with such a suggestion and a recommendation that who knows how many women will follow and go undetected," Jarrett said.

Cindy says it's frustrating because it feels like we're going ten steps backwards when the guidelines for getting a mammogram were already in place.

"They could be potentially lifesavers and I think that's what we're all about. We should be saving lives not trying to save money," Jarrett said.

Dr. Su Furman says this is just a recommendation and this doesn't mean the oncology community will change how they recommend.

"We deal with patients in a one on one. We don't want to lose even a single patient, so if you have to screen a hundred ladies in their 40s to catch the five, I would say it's probably worth it," Dr. Su Furman said.

She says younger women in their 40's have more aggressive breast cancer.

"In medicine and in cancer treatments it is always better to catch the cancer early, mammogram does that," Dr. Furman said.

Dr. Furman says she's going to continue to tell her patients to start getting a mammogram at age 40. She says self breast exams can help, but they can't replace regular mammograms.