“EARLY” Breast Cancer Screening Bill Gains Traction Among Jewish Groups

From The Cancer Letter, June 19, 2009:

In recent weeks, several prominent scientists and public health experts attempted to explain to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that their bill to introduce breast cancer screening in junior high school could do more harm than good.

These experts included the chief physician of the American Cancer Society, an NIH cancer prevention expert, and a prominent breast cancer epidemiologist, who attempted to acquaint these lawmakers and their staff members with the fundamentals of epidemiology.

Now it seems all that education failed to stick.

In a conference call organized by the Washington office of the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federations of North America on June 16, both Wasserman-Schultz and Klobuchar reiterated their sales pitch for the bill,called Education and Awareness Requires  Learning Young and abbreviated as EARLY.

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