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Biotech / Medical : Caprius(CAPR), Breast MRI(former ANMR/MAMO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: luis a. garcia who wrote (2245)	11/26/1997 9:46:00 AM
From: luis a. garcia	Respond to of 2615

THIS field is in its infancy... here is more clues.. from a large study published on the electronic library recently...it means a more educated consumer with the means to access the screening will tend to increase the overall number of mammograms taken each year. Also with the new regulations I posted last week which say you must give the results of the tests to the patient right then and there at the end of the screening the field for MRI mammography is just gotten started that is why there is now a mad dash for compnies to design machines to perform mammograms...and Caprius Inc has the lead in the MRI mammography field. Use of mammography increased in three of the five control subsites while remaining stable in the intervention subsites. Reliance on Medicare or Medicaid to at least partially reimburse mammography increased most in the subsites where the educational interventions had occurred. We suspect this indicates that any prevention intervention that includes both education and payment would more effectively increase use than would either of the interventions alone. Further, we recommend that providers as well as beneficiaries be targeted in publicity campaigns. In addition to the authors, the National Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Screening Consortium includes Ann Coleman, RNP PhD, Mary E. Costanza, MD, Sarah A. Fox, EdD, Russell Harris, MD, Suzanne Haynes, PhD, Larry Kessler, ScD, Eunice King, PhD, Dorothy S. Lane, MD, and Barbara Rimer, DrPH. The authors would also like to acknowledge the National Institute on Aging for cosponsoring the survey, Ryan Cox for assistance with programming, and Mathematica Policy Research for collecting the data. luis