A controversial study on the costs of unnecessary mammography, published in the April issue of Health Affairs, contains “serious methodological flaws,” said Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer Society.
The U.S. spends $4 billion on unnecessary mammograms each year, according to a study published in the April issue of Health Affairs.
The latest draft guideline by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is part of nearly a four-decade war over the appropriateness of screening women between the ages of 40 and 49.
As a firestorm ignites around the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force draft recommendation on mammography, researchers and advocates are grappling with the questions at the heart of the controversy:
The breast cancer screening recommendations proposed by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force earlier this week are basically unchanged from the 2009 version.
President Barack Obama signed the Medicare Access and Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act on April 14, permanently repealing the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula.
Two top administrators at MD Anderson Cancer Center, whose job responsibilities include maintaining harmony with the faculty, received substantial pay increases for having “excelled beyond expectation” and “effectively” directing the center's clinical activities.
Douglas Lowy became the NCI acting director April 1. On April 16, Lowy spoke with Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology, the College of American Pathologists, the Association for Molecular Pathology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology released a draft of a clinical practice guideline on the use of molecular marker testing for patients with primary or metastatic colorectal carcinoma.
Kenneth Mandl's slide, presented at a Health Affairs press briefingThe costs of false-positive mammograms and breast cancer overdiagnoses add up to $4 billion a year, according to a paper in the April edition of the journal Health Affairs.
