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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
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
QD: News Every Day--Colorectal cancer screening improving, yet short of goals
Colorectal cancer screening and changes in risk factors accounted for half the decline in incidence, the authors reported. ... 14.5 per 100,000 population, and increasing the prevalence of colorectal cancer screening to 70.5%.
January 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
January 2020
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
January 2020
Parsing the pros and cons of breast cancer screening
Cancer screening is, in the most literal sense, the art and science of looking for trouble. ... Breast cancer screening approaches are not perfect, but I, along with the U.S.
January 2020
Don't blur the message on cancer screening
This information on the lack of effective ovarian cancer screening methods is hardly news. ... As for mammography in breast cancer screening, please don't get me wrong.
January 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.
January 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
January 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.
January 2020