"Everyone agrees that mammography isn't perfect, but it's the best widely available detection tool that we have today, " Chandini Portteus, Komen's vice president of research, evaluation and scientific programs, said in a statement.

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"The development of DSM-5 began with an unprecedented process of research evaluation that included a series of white papers and 13 scientific conferences supported by the National Institutes of Health, " wrote Dr. David Kupfer, chairman of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who oversees the entire DSM-5 task force, in an e-mail.

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Moreover, the lorcaserin carcinogenicity studies were also thoroughly reviewed and discussed by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Executive Carcinogenicity Assessment Committee, and the results of this scientific assessment were included in the background documents provided to the committee and discussed in Agency presentations at the Advisory Committee meeting.

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