I was pleased to see a number of awards made to rural entities since then.

I was really troubled when the Corporation revealed that it had enrolled more volunteers than the Corporation had funds to support.

The only question is whether veterans health care should be a priority or an afterthought.

They all agreed that access to mammography is critical. Especially for Medicare beneficiaries.

Well, again, we're trying to clear this up and trying to get a definitive answer to women out there.

Well, if it is detected mammographically, and fewer than 50 percent metasticize, that is because something has been done, right?

I am wondering, though, if I will get comments on the floor that maybe this is not necessary.

We want to know odds-on what is the best thing to do.

I do not know how to respond to that. It would still seem to me, again as a layman, that the earlier you can detect a cancer, the better your prognosis is going to be.

I do have a bill in to increase that reimbursement rate for radiologists.

there is nothing more important than health.

Mammography is not the sole thing, but in combination with other things it is a useful tool for early detection.

In your statement, you say that 'Women with breast cancer detected mammographically have extremely good prognosis in comparison with those having cancer detected any other way.'

I have looked very carefully at the study that was done by Olsen and Gotzsche, and it seems to me that first of all, these were mammographies that were done in the 1960's and 1970's and maybe in the early 1980's.

We have a breast cancer epidemic in this country. Every three minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.

They believe mammograms are a very useful tool.

Every 3 minutes, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer in this country.

We made a commitment 5 years ago as a Congress, the Senate and the House, that we were going to double funding for NIH.