ACR applauds spending bill’s extension of rule that recognizes 2002 USPSTF breast cancer screening recommendations

The U.S. Congress is working on healthcare legislation to fix medicare reimbursements and end annual cuts to physicians.

When President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill into law on March 23, it included an extension of a rule first passed in 2015 that recognizes 2002 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) breast cancer screening recommendations as opposed to 2009 or 2016 recommendations.

High-risk breast cancer patients avoid MRIs that could improve early detection of disease

Nearly half of women at a high lifetime risk for breast cancer undergo routine mammograms at practices with onsite breast MR imaging capabilities, but MRI screenings are being vastly underused in the population, reaching just 6.6 percent of high-risk patients, a study in the Journal of Women’s Health states.