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Increasing colorectal cancer screening | ACP Internist
Screening rates increased from 2000 to 2015 but continue to lag behind goal levels.
Session offers attendees a chance to go ‘Beyond the Guidelines' | Internal Medicine Meeting 2018 News | ACP Internist
A Friday-morning session will look at breast cancer screening guidelines and discuss their application in a woman with dense breasts.
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QD: News Every Day--CT scans reconsidered for screening for high-risk lung cancer : ACP Internist
Doctors should counsel high-risk patients about lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography, according to guidelines issued by t...
American Cancer Society wants colon cancer screening at age 45 : ACP Internist
Until last week, colon cancer screening for most folks started at age 50. Why 50? Why hadn't the colonoscopy coming of age been set younger ...
QD: News Every Day--Colorectal cancer screening improving, yet short of goals : ACP Internist
Increased colorectal cancer screening rates lowered incidence and mortality from 1% to 6% by state, but could go even further by reaching th...
QD: News Every Day-- One-third of doctors overuse MRIs for breast cancer screening : ACP Internist
More than a third of physicians reported offering MRIs and other breast cancer screening tests that exceeded guidelines for a low-risk 51-ye...
Don't blur the message on cancer screening : ACP Internist
Recently the USPSTF renewed its position on ovarian cancer screening. The panel reminded the public that there's no value in doing blood tes...
Rethink pink: breast cancer screening evidence met politics and lost : ACP Internist
The controversy started at exactly 5 p.m. Monday, when the Annals of Internal Medicine lifted its embargo on new breast cancer screening re...
Breast cancer screening: of chances and choices : ACP Internist
A sardonic insight by Bertrand Russell deftly, if disturbingly, conveys much of what is wrong in the realm of modern health promotion, part...