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...quite as glamorous as I had hoped. Last Friday's Donald Trump-run pageant took place in Gary, Ind., which meant it was short on the sophistication of Atlantic City and long on a really disturbing smell. Even worse, a new rule, designed to cut down on breast-augmentation surgery, allowed padding in the bikinis and dresses. It also turned out that I had been invited to judge the preliminaries, which meant that instead of sitting with Karen Duffy, Daniel Baldwin and Ernie (the black Ghostbuster) Hudson at Friday's live telecast of the finals, I spent three days early...
...crisis in mammography comes just as the benefits of regular breast scans for women ages 40 and older are starting to be widely recognized--and as new advances in digital technology are beginning to come on line (see following story). How serious the problem seems, though, depends a lot on whom you talk...
Paula Sperling, 56, a New York City saleswoman, prides herself on being well organized. Whenever she has to schedule an appointment at New York University's Breast Imaging Center for her annual mammogram, she usually calls three to four weeks in advance. But the native New Yorker was surprised to learn last December that the next available opening wasn't until sometime in April. Sperling reminded the office staff that she has a family history of breast cancer. "Three or four months could mean the difference between a tumor that's localized and one that's spread into the lymph...
...loudly that their field is being eviscerated. They point to the growing number of licensed physicians who have abandoned mammography, forced out of their practices by low reimbursement rates and high malpractice costs. They have a powerful ally in Senator Tom Harkin of Idaho, who lost two sisters to breast cancer and is scheduled to introduce a bill in Congress this week that would boost payments for mammograms and provide incentives for radiologists to stay in the field. "Women in New York City have had to wait five months for mammography, and three months if they have an abnormality that...
...everyone is convinced that the situation is so dire. "We're not sure if it's a crisis," says Fran Visco, head of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, "or if it's something generated by the radiologists' trade association." Indeed, Visco believes the reimbursement issue has shifted focus away from other, more important issues in breast cancer, such as expanded funding for research and providing better protection against genetic discrimination...