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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(8):574-575; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.8.574
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 8, 574-575, April 18, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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IOM Report Sets Policy Priorities for Improving Breast Cancer Screening

Laura Newman

Last month, an Institute of Medicine committee released a technology assessment on breast cancer screening, identifying key research and policy recommendations to expedite rigorous evaluation of new tools for screening that might outperform mammography.

The report explicitly stated that, so far among imaging tests, only conventional film-screen mammography has demonstrated effectiveness as a screening tool. Despite a flurry of research into promising new tests, no other technique has proven on par with mammography, the panel concluded, saying that it should be the standard to which emerging technologies should be compared.

Yet mammography is far from an ideal screening tool, the panel concluded. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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