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'Scientific fraud' hampered funding for PET scans

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.

Wow, that is very interesting.

Not happy making.

As an aside, when I clicked repeatedly on Women's Health, I got the sub-forum in which your post was not represented....

I think I posted it in the Breast/Ovarian/Cervical Cancer Sub-Forum rather than in main Women's Health Forum. Is that what you mean, Karen?

Oh, that could be it.

But I don't think so.

When I clicked on women's health I always got the sub forum about cancer... I had to click on the title of your topic in order to get it...

Hey Lara,
I bet the hospitals are the ones where all the politicians are, am I sounding a tad facetious?

lol How come both of us Aussies are so tired? Actually I just double checked... ConsiderThis is tired as well. We're all tired on this thread.

No, didn't sound facetious, sounded realistic.

The things going on in my local hospital right now are downright scary though. :eek: