Lung Cancer Screening Bill Calls For CT Quality Standards
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A lung cancer screening bill introduced in the House and Senate April 6 would call on FDA's device center to set quality standards and guidelines for hospitals and clinics that conduct computed tomography screening for the disease.
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