Elaine Schattner www.forbes.com Recently, the Governor of Michigan signed into law a requirement that radiologists inform women if their mammogram reveals dense breasts. The law will take effect on June 1, 2015. With this act, Michigan became the 21st state to enact legislation on mandatory reporting of breast density found in breast cancer screening. The […]
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Breast density: over 700,000 UK women living with ‘hidden’ breast cancer risk
1 October 2014 Risk Determination and Prevention of Breast Cancer[1], published in the journal Breast Cancer Research, identifies the critical gaps that must be addressed if we are to reverse the increase in breast cancer expected over the next 10 years – and reach a tipping point where more breast cancers will be prevented in […]
Breast Density Inform Inconsistency Delivers Confusion
July 17, 2014 This first appeared in the July 2014 issue of DOTmed HealthCare Business News We have reached the tipping point. We have reached the tipping point. By population, over fifty percent of American women now live in states that require breast density information be provided to them in the letter they receive after […]
Minnesota and Rhode Island enact breast density laws
May 27, 2014 by Loren Bonner , DOTmed News Online Editor This week, Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed Rhode Island’s breast density inform bill into law, and late last week, Gov. Mark Dayton did the same for Minnesota women. Breast density laws require physicians to inform women if they have dense breasts along with the possible […]
National Breast Density Notification Amendment Advances
August 13, 2013 by Nancy Ryerson , Staff Writer The fight for breast density notification legislation has taken another step forward. Advocates proposed an amendment to the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) that would require that women screened for breast cancer be informed if they have dense breasts. Currently, 12 states have enacted breast density […]
Dense breasts may need more screening
United Press International 11-01-11 Women with dense or non-fatty breast tissue may need additional breast cancer screening, a U.S. researcher says. Dr. Roshni Rao, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said one woman’s personal battle with breast cancer was the inspiration for Henda’s Law — a Texas […]
California Passes Breast Density Bill
September 16, 2011 by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor The California State Legislature passed a bill last Friday requiring doctors to inform women if they have dense breasts after a mammogram, making California the second state this summer and the third state so far to have passed a so-called breast density law. The bill, […]