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New York Times
November 18, 2009, 3:12 PM
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday afternoon issued a strong statement intended to put distance between federal policy and an influential panel’s recommendations that most women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, not 40.
The panel’s new recommendations represent a significant departure from existing guidelines, and have caused widespread concern since they were announced on Monday. The backlash has been growing among doctors, patients and even members of Congress. (A group of Republican female lawmakers used the anger over the guidelines today as a way of denouncing the Democrats’ broader health care bills,
while Democrats noted that the panel is independent and its recommendations are contradicted by the American Cancer Society.)Continue reading here.
Editorial Note: Check out Tucson doc: 'Office full of women under 50 with breast cancer'
By Stephanie Innes
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.18.2009
Two of the 16 members of the independent panel United States Preventive Services Task Force are ASU professors:
Diana B. Petitti, M.D., M.P.H. (Vice Chair)
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Bernadette Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P./N.P.P.
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
