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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 11, 805-806, June 6, 2001
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Medicare Coverage Group Assesses Effectiveness of New Technologies

Laura Newman

Last December, Medicare announced that it would begin covering positron emission tomography scanning to diagnose, stage, and restage six specific cancers—lymphoma, melanoma, and lung, colorectal, esophageal, and head and neck cancers (see News, Feb. 7, p. 177).

Later this month, the issue of whether this technology could be useful in breast cancer diagnosis and staging will come to the table. The group charged with answering this question is a panel of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee.

In November 1998, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala established the committee as an impartial advisory body charged . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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