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Health Care and Cancer: Reforming the Odds in a Costly System

The government body that recently advised women in their 40s that they needn't bother with mammogram screenings now says its message was misunderstood. The task force "did not say what the task force meant to say,'' its vice chairman told Congress last week. Actually the Task Force on Preventive Services said exactly what it meant to – and what needs to be said: that scientific measurement of medical procedures to determine outcomes is valuable and important. But women, and many health professionals, didn't like the message. So the administration and its appointed panel scrambled like ...

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