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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
Lung cancer screening guideline debated
Profit-seekers jumped on lung cancer screening before any guidelines recommended it, Dr. ... All of the experts would like to see additional evidence about the effects of lung cancer screening.
March 2014
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.
May 2022
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.
May 2022
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.
May 2022
Squeezing in the cancer screening talk
We have evidence, and practitioners should use that to improve cancer screening rates. ... Cancer screening is a strategy and a pathway, not just a single test,” he said.
October 2019
ACP Internist
The age to start and discontinue mammography, screening intervals, the role of imaging methods other than mammography, and the role of clinical breast examination have been points of disagreement among guideline
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
Separating anecdotes from evidence in prostate cancer screening
Separating anecdotes from evidence in prostate cancer screening. I have been thinking a lot about cancer screening tests. ... I took to mean that whatever screening he had had, it failed to find his disease at a more treatable stage.
May 2022
Where are we now with breast cancer screening?
A: An “ideal” breast cancer screening protocol is one that starts with informing women about the benefits and risks of screening. ... As an epidemiologist, a cancer screening expert, and a woman, would you have done the same in her position?
May 2022