The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee recently passed the Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services (SCREENS) for Cancer Act.
Approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in December 2023, the legislation now awaits approval by the full U.S. Senate and House, along with President Joe Biden's signature, to become law.
Valerie Nelson, Manager of Federal Policy & Advocacy at Susan G. Komen, spoke with AuntMinnie.com about the act and its goals. Komen recently issued a statement applauding the passing of the act by the subcommittee.
![A normal mammogram confirmed by three-year radiologic follow-up illustrates reader-marked regions of interest (ROIs) during (A) unaided (round 1) and (B) artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted (round 2) reading. Each colored dot represents an ROI for recall by a human reader. Readers could mark more than one ROI per case, represented by multiple dots of the same color. During AI-assisted reading, the AI system displayed three visible prompts: two with suspicion of malignancy scores of 35% (left mediolateral oblique [L MLO] and craniocaudal [L CC]) and one with a suspicion of malignancy score of 10% (right craniocaudal [R CC]), shown as polygonal overlays. Without AI, six of 10 readers (60%) marked a false-positive ROI. With AI assistance, this fell to two of 10 (20%). R MLO = right mediolateral oblique.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-14-radiology-mammogram-ai-auto-bias.H0bYO8QlWs.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
