Tag Archives: screening

Survey of the general population in France identifies knowledge gaps in the perception of lung cancer

Lung cancer management in recent years has improved patient outcomes because of screening, improved surgery and radiotherapy in early and locally-advanced stages of disease, new chemotherapies, validated maintenance therapy, and effective targeted therapies. However, fears or misperceptions about lung cancer may alter physician-patient communications and could delay lung cancer screening, diagnosis, or treatment…

Lung cancer risk model refines decisions to screen

Computed Tomography (CT) screening can identify lung tumors while they are still treatable, and the US National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) found that annual screening of high-risk smokers can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20%. The best way to identify those at high risk remains an important question. …

Risk-based screening misses breast cancers in women in their forties — ScienceDaily

“Screening recommendations for this age group continue to be debated,” said Bonnie N. Joe, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in residence and chief of women’s imaging at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)…

Risk-based screening misses breast cancers in women in their forties

Pathology specialist contributes to debate on breast cancer gene screening — ScienceDaily

Glenn E. Palomaki, PhD, associate director of the Division of Medical Screening and Special Testing in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has recently published an invited commentary in the November issue of Genetics in Medicine…

Certain form of baldness at age 45 linked to higher risk for aggressive prostate cancer — ScienceDaily

“Our study found an increased risk for aggressive prostate cancer only in men with a very specific pattern of hair loss, baldness at the front and moderate hair-thinning on the crown of the head, at the age of 45. …

Should lung cancer screening be covered for Medicare beneficiaries?

Smoking is the most important risk factor for developing lung cancer. …

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer incidence, rate of death

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly occurring cancer worldwide. Most colorectal cancer cases develop from adenomas (benign tumors)…

Prostate cancer screening reduces deaths by a fifth: Large, long-term European trial — ScienceDaily

Despite this new evidence for the effectiveness of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to reduce mortality, doubts as to whether the benefits of screening outweigh the harms remain, and routine PSA screening programmes should not be introduced at this time, conclude the authors. The European Randomised study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) began in 1993 to determine whether screening men for PSA reduces deaths from prostate cancer. …