Search results for "Cancer Screening"
Increasing colorectal cancer screening
Perhaps more so than other preventive care, colorectal cancer screening has an infamous reputation. ... To examine status quo bias in the setting of colorectal cancer screening, Dr.
January 2019
ACP issues guidance statement for breast cancer screening of average-risk women with no symptoms | Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 News | ACP Internist
developers. Average-risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 years who have no symptoms for breast cancer should undergo breast cancer screening with mammography every other year, ACP stated ... These ACP guidance statements represent convergence across
April 2019
QD: News Every Day--Mailed outreach, noninvasive options boost colon cancer screening
Mailed outreach invitations resulted in higher colorectal cancer screening compared with usual care, according to a study. ... Authors wrote, “FIT outreach tripled colorectal cancer screening rates, and colonoscopy outreach doubled the rates compared
September 2020
American Cancer Society wants colon cancer screening at age 45
American Cancer Society wants colon cancer screening at age 45. Until last week, colon cancer screening for most folks started at age 50. ... Is it time to make an adjustment? Our colon cancer screening system is not perfect.
September 2020
Counter-intuitive results: Several cancer screening tests don't improve health outcomes
Counter-intuitive results: Several cancer screening tests don't improve health outcomes. Nearly 40 years ago, President Richard Nixon famously declared a "War on Cancer" by signing the National Cancer Act ... The bottom line from recent research is that
September 2020
The Evidence for Colonoscopies as a Cancer Screening Test
The Evidence for Colonoscopies as a Cancer Screening Test. This post by Harriet Hall, MD, originally appeared at Better Health. ... Everybody may be wrong. Colonoscopy is increasingly viewed as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening, but its
September 2020
New studies on colon cancer screening by colonoscopy and fecal blood testing
New studies on colon cancer screening by colonoscopy and fecal blood testing. ... This ongoing work will, hopefully, shed light on how testing for blood in stool samples compares with colonoscopy in colon cancer screening and, ultimately, costs and
September 2020
QD: News Every Day-- One-third of doctors overuse MRIs for breast cancer screening
QD: News Every Day-- One-third of doctors overuse MRIs for breast cancer screening. ... The vignettes were randomized to vary the woman’s race, insurance, family history of cancer and request for ovarian cancer screening.
September 2020
Rethink pink: breast cancer screening evidence met politics and lost
Rethink pink: breast cancer screening evidence met politics and lost. The controversy started at exactly 5 p.m. ... Monday, when the Annals of Internal Medicine lifted its embargo on new breast cancer screening recommendations and the rest of the medical
September 2020
Breast cancer screening: of chances and choices
But today, I am on a different mission; today's topic is breast cancer screening. ... Whatever the net effects of breast cancer screening, they should be distributed equitably.
September 2020