The National Institutes of Health is developing a plan on how to disseminate information on breast cancer research “without causing a panic,” reports odwyers.com. The report continues:
The move by the NIH’s Institute of Environmental Health Science comes more than a month after a federal task force sparked confusion and controversy by recommending women start breast cancer screening at age 50, not at 40, as it previously said.
The NIH issued a “sources sought” notice calling for firms or companies to indicate interest and capabilities for helping the federal entity develop processes to provide breast cancer research information to citizens “without inciting undue health concerns,” according to the notice.
An RFP could be issued as early as February 2010.