Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The American Medical Association (AMA) voted on Tuesday at its annual policy meeting to update its policy on screening mammography, which emphasizes that women should be eligible for screening mammography at age 40 and that insurance should pay for it.
At first glance, the updated AMA policy would seem to directly challenge the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's controversial 2009 reversal of its earlier recommendation that women ages 40 to 49 be screened routinely.
A closer look reveals, though, that the new AMA policy is not as straightforward as its previous iteration in 2002, which recommended annual screening mammograms and continuation of clinical breast examinations in asymptomatic women 40 and older.
Despite the wording changes, many breast imaging experts and organizations such as the American College of Radiology are focusing on the positive, praising the AMA for its support in keeping screening mammography available to women beginning at 40.
For more analysis and reaction to the AMA policy update, click here, or visit our Women's Imaging Digital Community at women.auntminnie.com.
More ISCT coverage
Our live video streaming of the International Society for Computed Tomography's (ISCT) International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT wrapped up on Wednesday as the popular meeting drew to a close in San Francisco. But AuntMinnie.com's coverage isn't ending.
For example, you can take in our coverage of a presentation by Dr. Joseph Schoepf from the Medical University of South Carolina on the need for special credentialing for cardiac CT. Also, get the results of the Multicenter Evaluation of Dual-Source CT in Patients With Intermediate Likelihood of Coronary Artery Stenoses (MEDIC) trial by clicking here.
For all of our early stories from the ISCT meeting, visit our CT Digital Community at ct.auntminnie.com.
