'Scientific fraud' hampered funding for PET scans

Lara · 07-09-2007, 02:03 PM

This is Australian news.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1973995.htm

'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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