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'Scientific fraud' hampered spread of cancer technique
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 09/07/2007
Reporter: Matt Peacock
Quote:
One of the most effective diagnostic tools to detect whether cancers still present a problem after surgery is positron emission tomography (PET scan), a nuclear medicine technique that is now widely used overseas. But seven years ago the Federal Government's Medicare advisory committee restricted funding for pet scans to only a few hospitals - a decision some experts say has cost thousands of Australians their health, and in some cases their lives.
Transcript
ALI MOORE: The most common form of cancer in Australian women is breast cancer; among men, it's prostate cancer.
One of the most effective diagnostic tools to detect whether those cancers still present a problem after surgery is what's known as a PET scan: positron emission tomography, a nuclear medicine technique that's now widely used overseas.
But seven years ago, the Federal Government's Medicare Advisory Committee restricted funding for PET scans to only a few hospitals on the mainland, a decision some experts say has cost thousands of Australians their health, and in some cases, their lives.
The decision was made after a report by a committee of cancer specialists advising the Government was significantly changed - an alteration later described as scientific fraud.
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