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SAVING WOMEN’S LIVES

Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis

Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer

National Cancer Policy Board

Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Policy and Global Affairs Division

Janet E. Joy, Edward E. Penhoet, and Diana B. Petitti, Editors

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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Support for this project was provided by the Apex Foundation, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Carl J. Herzog Foundation, Mr. Corbin Gwaltney, Mr. John Castle, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Kansas Health Foundation, and the National Cancer Institute. This study was supported, in part, by Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, TO #110 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.

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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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COMMITTEE ON NEW APPROACHES TO EARLY DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST CANCER

EDWARD E. PENHOET (Chair), Director,

Science and Higher Education Programs, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco, CA

DIANA B. PETITTI (Vice Chair), Senior Scientific Advisor,

Health Policy and Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA

MARTIN D. ABELOFF, Director,

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

COLIN B. BEGG, Chairman,

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

M. KATHLEEN BEHRENS, General Partner,

RS & Co. Venture Partners IV, L.P. RS Investments, San Francisco, CA

RICHARD BOHMER, Assistant Professor,

Harvard Business School

CHRISTINE BRUNSWICK, Vice President,

National Breast Cancer Coalition, Washington, DC

SANJIV S. GAMBHIR, Director,

Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

ROBERT A. GREENES, Professor,

Radiology and Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

JEFFREY R. MARKS, Associate Professor,

Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

BARBARA J. MCNEIL, Ridley Watts Professor and Head,

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School;

Professor of Radiology,

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA;

Head of Department of Health Care Policy,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

DAVID C. MOWERY, Professor,

Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, CA

ETTA D. PISANO, Chief of Breast Imaging,

Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

GLENN D. STEELE, President and CEO,

Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA

KIRBY G. VOSBURGH, Associate Director,

Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technologies (CIMIT), Cambridge, MA

WILLIAM C. WOOD, Chief of Surgery,

Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA

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Consultants

LAURA J. ESSERMAN, Director,

Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA

LANCE A. LIOTTA, Chief,

Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

LARRY NORTON, Deputy Physician-in-Chief and Director of Breast Cancer Programs,

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Study Staff

JANET E. JOY, Study Director

ROGER C. HERDMAN, Director,

National Cancer Policy Board

JAMES J. DANIERO, Research Associate

ELIZABETH J. BROWN, Research Assistant

MARY ANN F. PRYOR, Project Assistant

ANIKE L. JOHNSON, Administrative Assistant

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed indraft form byindividuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:


Mina J. Bissell, Life Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Steven R. Cummings, Research Institute at the California Pacific Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Alan M. Garber, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Lawrence H. Miike, Former Commissioner of Hawaii Department of Health, Honolulu, HI

Barbara S. Monsees, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis, MO

Charles B. Wilson, Health Technology Center, San Francisco, CA


Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions

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or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School and Maureen Henderson, O.B.E., M.D., Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Washington. Appointed by the NRC and Institute of Medicine, they were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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Acknowledgments

Progress in the fight against breast cancer has benefited enormously from the efforts of thousands of volunteers who have worked to raise awareness, money, and provide support to women with breast cancer. This report has likewise benefited enormously from the generous efforts of volunteers. In addition to committee members who volunteered their time and tremendous efforts, dozens of other experts volunteered their time either through formal presentations or through informal contacts with the study staff. Those who made formal presentations to the committee are listed in the workshop agendas in Appendix B. The following people provided technical comment on draft sections of the report: Nananda Col, David Feigal, Charles Finder, Joseph Hackett, Barbara Monsees, David Pwinica-Worms, Barbara Rimer, Mary Ropka, Alan Rosenberg, Mitchell Schnall, Karen Sepucha, Robert A. Smith, and Sean Tunis. Their expert counsel was much appreciated and invaluable. Kim Adcock, Leonard Berlin, and David Page, Laszlo Tabar, and Earl Steinberg provided critical reference material or shared their unpublished work. Pam Butler and Priscilla Butler were a treasure trove of information and shared many analyses related to workforce issues done by the American College of Radiology.

In addition to outside experts, Sharyl Nass, Maria Hewitt, and Jill Eden, study directors at the National Cancer Policy Board, were always generous and insightful in their advice about the many different issues related to the study. Elizabeth McCarthy and Jennifer VanRoeyen, both interns at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for several months during the early stages of the study, did wonderful jobs of researching and developing

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background material for the study. Elizabeth Brown had been on the IOM staff for only a few months and proved outstanding in her ability at filling in the many information holes that remained in the late stages of the report. James Daniero, the research associate throughout the study, was entrusted with an extraordinary amount of responsibility for the research, development, and production of this report. He has been dedicated and resourceful in solving countless challenges that arose during the course of the study—from coping with record-setting blizzards in the midst of committee meetings to preparing essential background materials while supervising the multitude of production and administrative tasks associated with the study. As much as he has provided exemplary staff support, he has been a pleasure and privilege for all to work with.

Roger Herdman, director of the National Cancer Policy Board, was always available for consultation and always provided wise and thoughtful perspectives on all matters of health policy and technology. His support at every stage of this project is enormously appreciated.

Alison Mack and Margie Patlak, consulting writers for various sections of the report, were wonderful colleagues who provided input to the study above and beyond their writing contributions. Jennifer Otten, Janice Mehler, and Bill McLeod of the IOM each provided wonderful assistance at different stages of the study, and all consistently went above and beyond the call of duty to help shepherd the study through the Academy process. Special thanks to Janet Joy for her tireless efforts in preparing this report on behalf of the committee and for her many contributions to obtaining and synthesizing the evidence that is the basis for the recommendations.

The committee also gratefully acknowledges Margaret E. Mahoney and Carol Richards who were instrumental in enlisting support for this report and whose vision led to its genesis.

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Acronyms


AAMC

Association of American Medical Colleges

ACE

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme

ACR

American College of Radiology

ACRIN

American College of Radiology Imaging Network

ACS

American Cancer Society

AHRQ

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AIDS

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

ALLHAT

Antihypertensive and Lipid Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial

AMA

American Medical Association

ASRT

American Society of Radiologic Technicians


BCCPTA

Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act

BCS

Breast-conserving surgery

BI-RADS®

Breast Imaging Reporting and Data Systems


CABG

Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

CAD

Computer-Assisted Detection

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CLIA

Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment

CMS

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CPT

Current Procedural Terminology

CT

Computed Tomography

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DCIS

Ductal carcinoma in situ

DICOM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DMIST

Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial

DoD

Department of Defense


EDRN

Early Detection Research Network

EIS

Electrical Impedance Scanning


FDA

Food and Drug Administration


GAO

Government Accounting Office


HDC/BMT

High-dose chemotherapy/Bone marrow transplant

HHS

Health and Human Services

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act


ICBIO

Interagency Council on Biomedical Imaging in Oncology

IDE

Investigational Device Exemption

IOM

Institute of Medicine

IRB

Institutional Review Board


LOH

Loss of Heterozygosity


MQSA

Mammography Quality Standards Act

MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging


NCI

National Cancer Institute

NCICB

National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics

NDMA

National Digital Mammography Archives

NHSBSP

National Health Service Breast Screening Programme

NIBIB

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH

National Institutes of Health

NINR

National Institute of Nursing Research

NSABP

National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project


PCR

Polymerase Chain Reaction

PDQ

Physician Data Query

PET

Positron Emission Tomography

PHI

Protected Health Information

PMA

Premarket Approval

PPV

Positive Predictive Value

PSA

Prostate Serum Antigen

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QUADAS

Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy


RDOG

Radiology Diagnostic Oncology Group

ROC

Receiver Operating Characteristic

RT

Radiologic Technician


SEER

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results

SPECT

Single-emission Photon Emission Computed Tomography

STAR

Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene

STARD

Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy


USPSTF

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force


VNPI

Van Nuys Prognostic Index


WHO

World Health Organization

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The National Academies is pleased to acknowledge that a gift in support of this project was made in honor of Sallie Nicholls, Beth Weibling, Jane Carlson Williams, Bonnie Main, and Amy McGraw, and in memory of Joan Morgan and Mabel Frost McCaw.

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3

 

IMPROVING BREAST CANCER SCREENING SERVICES

 

63

   

 Screening Outcomes Vary by Country,

 

63

   

 Quality Assurance Improves Outcomes,

 

72

   

 Improving Mammography,

 

79

   

 Other Technology Options,

 

92

   

 Breast Imagers Needed,

 

100

   

 Summary,

 

114

   

 References,

 

116

4

 

UNDERSTANDING BREAST CANCER RISK

 

123

   

 Breast Density,

 

128

   

 Genetic Risk Factors,

 

128

   

 Managing Risk,

 

137

   

 Summary,

 

148

   

 References,

 

150

5

 

BIOLOGICALLY BASED TECHNOLOGIES

 

155

   

 Clues to Breast Cancer: Individual Biomarkers,

 

157

   

 Profiles of Breast Cancer: Genomics and Proteomics,

 

164

   

 Pictures of Breast Cancer: Molecular Imaging,

 

172

   

 Novel In Vitro Diagnostic Tests Pose Unique Regulatory Challenges,

 

181

   

 Summary,

 

181

   

 References,

 

183

6

 

THE NECESSARY ENVIRONMENT FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

 

188

   

 Support for Discovery Research Is Adequate,

 

189

   

 Methodological Issues,

 

198

   

 Large-Scale, Higher Quality Clinical Trials Are Needed,

 

205

   

 FDA Assesses Safety and Efficacy,

 

218

   

 Health Care Payers Assess Clinical Value,

 

227

   

 Research and Development Should Be Integrated,

 

234

   

 References,

 

244

7

 

TRANSLATING NEW TECHNOLOGIES INTO IMPROVED PATIENT OUTCOMES

 

249

   

 Process of Technology Adoption,

 

251

   

 The Many Drivers of Technology Adoption,

 

254

   

 Technology and Organizational Change,

 

261

   

 Summary,

 

267

   

 References,

 

267

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List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables

BOXES

1-1

 

Millions of Women Do Not Receive Annual Mammograms,

 

20

1-2

 

Statement of Task,

 

28

1-3

 

Misleading Marketing of MRI for Breast Cancer Screening,

 

32

2-1a

 

Screening Terminology,

 

39

2-1b

 

Hypothetical Screening Results,

 

40

2-2

 

After the Storm: Expert Reviews of Mammography Screening Trials,

 

42

2-3

 

Classification of DCIS,

 

53

2-4

 

Treatment for DCIS,

 

55

3-1

 

Quality Assurance for Breast Screening in the United Kingdom,

 

72

3-2

 

PERFORMS: A Self-Assessment Program to Improve Performance,

 

73

3-3

 

Breast Cancer Legislation,

 

80

3-4

 

Bodies Approved to Certify and Accredit the Quality of Mammography Facilities,

 

82

3-5

 

ACR BI-RADS®: Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System,

 

84

3-6

 

Mammograms and Malpractice,

 

105

3-7

 

The IOM on Tort Reform,

 

106

3-8

 

Who Does What in Mammography,

 

113

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4-1

 

Relative Versus Absolute Risk,

 

124

4-2

 

Epidemiological Methods for Discovering Genetic Links to Disease,

 

125

4-3

 

Male Breast Cancer Occurs, but Too Rarely to Screen with Mammography,

 

139

4-4

 

A Blood Test to Forego Mammography?,

 

142

5-1

 

CA 15-3,

 

160

5-2

 

Early Detection Research Network,

 

162

5-3

 

How Genetic Mutations Can Disrupt Control of Cellular Functions,

 

168

5-4

 

National Cancer Institute Support for Molecular Imaging Research,

 

180

6-1

 

Brief History of Medical Technology Assessment in the U.S. Federal Government,

 

196

6-2

 

Common Failures in Clinical Trial Designs Submitted for Review,

 

198

6-3

 

Measuring Breast Cancer Survival: Kaplan-Meier Curves,

 

200

6-4

 

Treatments for Hypertension Tested in the ALLHAT Comparative Trial,

 

206

6-5

 

Herceptin®,

 

210

6-6

 

Personal Health Information Identifiers Under HIPAA,

 

214

6-7

 

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation Committee Requirements for National Coverage,

 

229

6-8

 

Medicare Requirements for Coverage: Steps to Obtaining Medicare Coverage,

 

229

6-9

 

Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise,

 

238

6-10

 

NIH Criteria for Establishing Center Programs,

 

244

7-1

 

Efficacy and Effectiveness,

 

250

7-2

 

Typology of Technology Adopters,

 

254

7-3

 

T-Scan: FDA Approval, but No Market,

 

256

7-4

 

Myriad Problems in International Gene Patenting,

 

257

7-5

 

Drug-Eluting Stents,

 

259

7-6

 

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: A Case Study in Technology Deployment,

 

263

FIGURES

1-1

 

Personal stories in women’s magazines overrepresent the incidence of breast cancer in younger women and underrepresent it among older women,

 

31

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2-1

 

Trends in mammography dose and image quality,

 

49

2-2

 

Female breast cancer incidence (invasive and DCIS) by age-adjusted rates from 1973 to 2001,

 

51

3-1

 

Frequency of abnormal mammograms in North America compared to other countries,

 

68

3-2

 

Breast cancer incidence and mortality in white and black women,

 

77

3-3

 

Poverty is a greater barrier to mammography than race or ethnicity,

 

78

3-4

 

Mammographic sensitivity increases with a woman’s age,

 

87

3-5

 

Examples of MRI and x-ray images of two different cases of DCIS,

 

97

3-6

 

Fewer mammography facilities each year,

 

102

3-7

 

The ranks of academic radiologists are thin compared to other specialties,

 

108

4-1

 

Breast cancer screening based on stratified risk assessments,

 

138

4-2

 

Mammography use declines when breast cancer risk is greatest,

 

144

6-1

 

Pathway of medical technology development,

 

189

6-2

 

Distribution of public and charitable funding of breast cancer,

 

190

6-3

 

Percentage of NCI budget allocated to selected cancer types,

 

191

6-4

 

Architecture of the National Digital Mammography Archive,

 

241

C-1

 

Receiver operating characteristic graph of a varying decision threshold compared with a “useless test,”

 

316

C-2

 

Example of ROC curve analysis for computer-assisted detection,

 

317

C-3

 

Comparison of two diagnostic modalities without ROC curves,

 

318

C-4

 

Comparison of two diagnostic modalities utilizing ROC curves,

 

319

TABLES

1-1

 

Imaging Technologies for Breast Cancer Reviewed in Mammography and Beyond,

 

24

2-1

 

BI-RADS® (fourth edition) Scale for Characterizing Breast Composition,

 

44

2-2

 

Age Differences in DCIS Detected by Screening Mammography,

 

52

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3-1

 

Breast Screening Programs in Different Countries,

 

64

3-2

 

Comparison of Screening Mammography Outcomes in the United States and Britain,

 

70

3-3

 

Factors That Affect the Quality of Screening Mammography,

 

86

3-4

 

Relationship Between Volume of Mammograms Read and Accuracy of Interpretation Is Inconsistent,

 

88

3-5

 

Mammography Volume Standards,

 

90

4-1

 

Age-Specific Probabilities of Developing Breast Cancer,

 

125

4-2

 

Risk Factors for Breast Cancer,

 

126

4-3

 

Genes Other Than BRCA1 and BRCA2 Involved in Breast Cancer Susceptibility,

 

133

4-4

 

Percent of Women Who Rated Certain Outcomes “Likely” Was Not Significantly Different for Diagnoses, Despite Significantly Different Prognoses,

 

145

4-5

 

Most Women in the United States Overestimate the Benefits of Mammography,

 

146

5-1

 

Biomarkers of Events in the Development of Breast Cancer: Their Potential Uses and Limitations,

 

158

5-2

 

Guiding Principles Used in Biomarker Validation,

 

163

5-3

 

Molecular Imaging in Breast Cancer Targets and Agents,

 

174

5-4

 

Characteristics of Various Molecular Imaging Modalities in Animal Studies,

 

176

6-1

 

Major Funders of Breast Cancer Research,

 

192

6-2

 

Federal and Private Technology Assessors,

 

194

6-3

 

Participation of Breast Cancer Organizations in Clinical Trial Accrual,

 

212

6-4

 

Options for Obtaining Protected Health Information for Research Under HIPAA Privacy Rule,

 

216

6-5

 

Device Classification and Application Requirements for FDA Review,

 

220

6-6

 

FDA Device Approvals for Breast Cancer Detection from 1995-2004,

 

222

7-1

 

The Three Phases of Technology Adoption,

 

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Quality Measures Used in Colorado Mammography Project,

 

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A Mutation-Positive Result May Have Both Benefits and Problems,

 

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A Mutation-Negative Result Also Has Benefits and Problems,

 

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The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer mortality has decreased steadily since 1989. Yet breast cancer remains a major problem, second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of death from cancer for women. To date, no means to prevent breast cancer has been discovered and experience has shown that treatments are most effective when a cancer is detected early, before it has spread to other tissues. These two facts suggest that the most effective way to continue reducing the death toll from breast cancer is improved early detection and diagnosis.

Building on the 2001 report Mammography and Beyond, this new book not only examines ways to improve implementation and use of new and current breast cancer detection technologies but also evaluates the need to develop tools that identify women who would benefit most from early detection screening. Saving Women’s Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis encourages more research that integrates the development, validation, and analysis of the types of technologies in clinical practice that promote improved risk identification techniques. In this way, methods and technologies that improve detection and diagnosis can be more effectively developed and implemented.

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