Passage of a Senate appropriations bill may mean that clinical trials could begin by the end of the year. The methods of the intelligence and medical communities are strikingly similar, whether they be tracking the movement of foreign troops or cancer tissue, or conducting landscape reconnaissance necessary for both target and tumor recognition. Sen. Arlen Specter , Susan Blumenthal, deputy assistant secretary for women's health and assistant surgeon general, and federal intelligence and information specialists also attended.
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However, with early detection, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 96 percent. To reach that goal, the office turned to the nation's military and intelligence agencies because defense imaging technology is considered to be a decade ahead of medical technology in knowledge. Photograph copyright by Tommy Leonardi Sen. Arlen Specter addresses the media at a Medical Center news conference. Mammograms miss cancer in 15 percent of cases, many of them in younger women who tend to have denser breast tissue. In three out of four of the 500,000 biopsies done yearly on suspicious lesions detected by a mammography, no cancer is found.