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Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: A Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Institute of Medicine ... Abstract In this report The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and the Insti- tute of Medicine (IOM) present a one-day symposium that was held at the IOM to further disseminate the conclusions and recommendations of the joint IOM and National Research Council report, Saving Womenâs Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis. The symposium was introduced by Mrs. Evelyn Lauder, Founder and Chairman of the BCRF; and Dr. Edward Penhoet, Chairman of the IOM committee for the report. At a ple- nary session in the morning six invited experts from academia, the American Cancer Society, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave pres- entations on what women need to know about mammography, challenges to expanding mammography capacity, better models for mammography services, risk stratification for breast cancer detection, the promise of biomarkers, and bringing new technologies into service. In the afternoon, panelists from the Na- tioanl Cancer Institue, the Food and Drug Admnistration, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the American College of Radiology (ACR), Partners Health Care, and University of California, San Francisco, gave presentations and participated in discussions with attendees in two groups, one on delivering better breast cancer screening services and one on developing and delivering new de- tection technologies. A wrap-up session at the end summarized the issues raised, including: how to organize mammography better and recruit women to screen- ing; lessons learned from screening in the United Kingdom; and disparities in breast cancer screening and care, Mammography Quality Standards Act en- forcement, ACR perspectives on screening, the roles of National Institutes of Health in cancer detection technology development, engineers working with clinicians to develop breast cancer detection, technology evaluation and cover- age policy, and assessing technologies in managed care systems. At the end, a representative of breast cancer survivors gave her perspectives on the day. 1 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: A Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Institute of Medicine ... Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.