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Review concludes Pennsylvania mammography facilities are inspected properly.
2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Problems turned up in 28% of Pennsylvania's inspections of certified mammography facilities, according to a report issued on December 4, 2003, by the state auditor general's office that praised how the inspections are conducted.
"Most important, [federal regulators] found no violations that did compromise mammography quality to the point where ... women and their physicians had to be notified," the report stated.
Auditor General Robert P. Casey Jr., who released the findings, said shortcomings identified in the report were relatively few.
"In all the horror and the darkness of that diagnosis for a woman and her family, we hope this report provides some measure of comfort and even a little bit of light in the darkness," he said.
Mammograms are used to detect breast cancer, which kills 2,200 women a year in Pennsylvania. More than 10,000 cases are diagnosed in the state annually.
The review of more than 1,000 inspections conducted by the Department of Environmental Protection over a recent 30-month period concluded the agency does an adequate job of checking up on the 406 certified mammography facilities in Pennsylvania.
"You have a great job done by the [DEP] in the 30 months that we looked at, plus a lot of facilities doing a good job, because there are virtually no problems," Casey said.
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