Earlier this month Colorado became the 30th state to mandate that women with dense breast tissue get told about it when they receive results from their mammograms. This week an area newspaper spotlighted a radiologist who helped push the legislation through.
Taj Kattapuram, MD, who serves as legislative chair for the Colorado Radiological Society, tells the Longmont-based Times-Call she was initially skeptical about the bill because density information was already available to breast-imaging patients through their medical records.
“I thought, well, patients can already access their mammography report. They simply have to call the office of medical records and ask for it,” Kattapuram says in the article. “But what is great about this breast density bill is that it is championed by patient groups and not physicians or hospital groups. … When [it] was explained to me why they want it, I was fully supportive.”
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