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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(23):1721-1722; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji442
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

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FDA Considers Recommendations on Mammography Quality

Judith Randal

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The law that charges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with maintaining quality of mammography—the National Mammography Quality Standards Act—will be up for reauthorization in 2007. The reauthorization has provided Congress and the FDA with the opportunity to take a close look at areas that could use some improvement—or a complete makeover.

Congress asked the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies, to examine current mammography practices and to make recommendations for future improvements. In September, the FDA's National Mammography Quality Standards Act Advisory Committee met with agency staff to discuss the recommendations IOM . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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