Public Comments

Summary of Public Comments and CDC Response

Minimum Data Elements (MDEs) for the

National Breast and Cervical Cancer

Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)

Federal Register Notice: A 60-day Notice was published in the Federal Register on June 6, 2012, vol. 77, No. 109, pp. 33467-33468.

Summary of Public Comments

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Subject: public comment on federal register FW: this sounds like ouitdated material that needs to be shut down mammograms can bring on problems by itself

actually having these mammograms can being on breast cancer. thisis just another example of misguided inaccurate cdc policy this cdc policy is 50 years ago and recently studies hae shown mammograms can being on breast cancer. this program should not be funded at all. this policy is misguided and needs to be totally shut down. this comment is for the public record see the artciel below

Mammograms cause breast cancer, groundbreaking new research declares

Wednesday, December 02, 2009 by: S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Ever since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a look, finally, at the scientific evidence and announced new recommendations earlier this month for routine mammograms -- specifically that women under 50 should avoid them and women over 50 should only get them every other year -- the reactions from many women, doctors and the mainstream media have reached the point of near hysteria (http://www.naturalnews.com/027558_mammograms_cancer_industry.html). Not getting annual mammograms, some say, means countless women will receive a virtual death sentence because their breast tumors won't be discovered. But what is rarely discussed about mammograms is this: the tests could actually be  causing many cases of breast cancer.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/027641_mammograms_breast_cancer.html#ixzz1xKQn0h6o

 

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Summary of CDC Response

CDC provided a courtesy reply in response to the public comment.

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