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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(6):429-430; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.6.429
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High Expectations for Mammography At Heart of Many Breast Cancer Malpractice Cases

Judith Randal

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Insurance claims made on behalf of neurologically impaired newborns have long been notorious for causing the greatest financial grief for American medical liability insurers. Less known is that claims generated when screening mammography misses a breast cancer—thus presumably delaying its diagnosis and treatment—are consistently in second place.

Part of the reason is that the growth of screening mammography has been so phenomenal since its infancy in the 1960s that there are now more than 31 million of these examinations performed each year in the United States. Whereas this U.S. Food and Drug Administration statistic speaks to the success of many professional and advocacy groups in popularizing mammography, the most frequent defendants in breast . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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