Wrong focus for mammogram debate? Key may be improving compliance by older women

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The National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB) voted Mar 27, 1997, to recommend that average-risk women in their 40s have a breast cancer screening mammogram yearly or every two years, but one board member dissented. The dissenter, University of Maryland School of Medicine epidemiology professor Kay Dickersin, said that cancer-prevention resources could better be spent on women aged 50 and over. The National Cancer Institute adopted the NCAB guidelines.

Health Problems Prevention Programs, Standards, Prevention, Breast cancer, Mammography, Preventive medicine, Quotations, United States. National Cancer Institute, United States. National Cancer Advisory Board, Dickersin, Kay

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Proposal would stabilize funds for biomedical research

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A one percent tax on health plan premiums would pay for the trust fund proposed by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and increase biomedical research support by approximately 50%. New resources of $6 billion per year would require Congress to provide funding equal to the level of the previous year. Funding would support institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health.

Admin. of public health programs, Natl Institutes of Health, Finance, United States. National Institutes of Health

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