NCI MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS SHOULD BE REVISED
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
NCI MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING RECOMMENDATIONS SHOULD BE REVISED to reflect the possibility of benefit from screening women under age 50, the House Committee on Government Operations asserts in a report approved Oct. 7 by the committee. The report, entitled "Misused Science: The National Cancer Institute's Elimination of Mammography Guidelines for Women in their Forties," criticizes NCI's decision to eliminate screening guidelines for women aged 40-49 and maintains that NCI has "created confusion about the importance of mammography screening."