Approximately 14 percent of high-risk women completed recommended breast MRI screening at Invision Sally Jobe Breast Centers within one year after the clinic implemented risk assessments and informed primary care providers that high-risk women should undergo breast MRI, according to a study published in the January issue of Academic Radiology.
The Utah State Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 31 approved legislation encouraging facilities to notify women of their breast density status. The legislation will be sent to the state Senate for consideration.
An updated model of the Forrest report provided new kindling in the screening mammography firestorm by suggesting that breast cancer screening may cause more harm than good. The study, published Dec. 8 in British Medical Journal, focused on quality-adjusted life years and, unlike the original 1986 Forrest report, incorporated screening harms in the analysis.
Written by Lisa Fratt
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. has vetoed SB 791, which would have required mammography providers to notify women about their breast density and potential benefits of additional screening.
The rates of new lung cancer cases in the U.S. dropped among men in 35 states and among women in six states between 1999 and 2008, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among women, lung cancer incidence decreased nationwide between 2006 and 2008, after increasing steadily for decades. Smoking cessation fueled the decline and other data have suggested CT screening could motivate smokers to quit.
After surviving childhood cancer, patients who experience a subsequent neoplasm face a large increase in the risk of developing additional neoplasms, with more than one-quarter developing third or subsequent tumors, and particularly high rates found among those treated for nonmelanoma skin cancers, according to the authors of a large study published June 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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