11.   October is breast cancer awareness month, and this column is not in any way meant to take away from the need for breast cancer screening and education.

12.   She is scheduled to go to the Beth Israel Medical Center Wednesday morning, where she will meet with women whose breast cancer screenings have been covered by Medicare.

13.   The other advance is the use of positron emission tomography for breast cancer screening.

14.   Today, too many women do not get breast cancer screenings.

15.   However, confidence in breast screening has been hit by damning conclusions reached last fall by scientists from the Nordic Cochrane Center in Copenhagen.