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Breast cancer: Selected legal issues
Author(s) -
Wynstra Nancy A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.2820741339
Subject(s) - reimbursement , medicine , breast cancer , cancer , informed consent , mammography , bone marrow transplantation , family medicine , gynecology , transplantation , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , surgery , law , health care , pathology , political science
Several legal and ethical issues may arise during the course of screening for and diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Among the most active legal areas are reimbursement for therapies deemed experimental by certain insurance companies, such as high dose chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplantation (HDCT/ABMT) and off‐label drug use; these reimbursement issues are discussed. Legal issues in mammography screening and insurance coverage and legal issues relative to informed consent in breast cancer treatment also are discussed.