This bill reauthorized the 1992 Mammography Quality Standards Act, which established national, uniform standards for mammography and expired in 1997, and adds four more quality-protection provisions. Statistics show one out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime.
Studies show that mammograms are one of the best early-stage detection methods.
Anything that Congress can do to help women fight this disease is beneficial. That's one new case about every three minutes. While there has been a true increase in the number of breast cancer cases during the last decade, studies show many are early-stage cancers. Some scientists claim this early detection is the result of a growing number of women undergoing regular mammograms. Studies prove that a mammogram can detect early-stage breast cancers.