By Heather Hintze

EUGENE, Ore. -- Revised recommendations from the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force advise women they should start getting mammograms starting at the age of 50 and decrease their frequency of screenings.

These recommendations don't sit well with local mammography services. Oregon Imaging Centers (OMI) says just this year alone, they've found breast cancer in 29 women ages 40 to 49 who. Under these new recommendations, they wouldn't be advised to get screened for the disease.

Radiologists say they're worried with missing cancer in women ages 40 to 49, who tend to have more agressive cancer. The revised recommendations also decrease the frequency of screenings from each year to every two years, which radiologists say is also a concern.

OMI says health care reform may play a part in the revised recommendations with companies wanting to save money in this economy, but he says it's ultimately the patients who suffer, especially if their cancer goes undetected.

Oregon has the second highest rate of breast cancer in the nation. So, radiologists in Lane County say they believe women over the age of 40 should still have their annual mammogram.