New York, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The California Senate candidate and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is slamming the new mammogram guidelines. She says that, “the new breast cancer advice defies common sense.”

Carly Fiorina learned she had breast cancer in February 2008 and then she underwent surgery in March. When the U.S. Preventive Task Force, a government-appointed panel of medical experts, announced on Monday that it no longer recommends routine mammograms and breast self-exams for women under 50—and that even women over 50 should have the procedure only every other year, Carly Fiorina of course had a lot to say. Had she followed those guidelines, “I’m not quite sure I’d be alive today,” Fiorina told The Daily Beast.

“I discovered my own lump two weeks after receiving a clear mammogram. So had I not been in the habit of self-examination I doubt I would have found it.”

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, is still recovering from her grueling battle with the disease. “It’s clear from my own experience and the experience of millions of other women that this new recommendation is not going to save lives,” she says.