screening
Study Highlights Value of Patient Navigation for Rural Cancer Screening
In rural parts of the United States, providing patient navigation services and a tailored educational video ...
MAY 19, 2023
Better Survival Seen in Early-Onset Than in Late-Onset Pancreatic Cancer
Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when they were younger had improved survival, but not if there was ...
MAY 19, 2022
Screening Siblings of Newborns With Cancer Mutations Could Avert Related Deaths
Genetically testing siblings of newborns with pediatric cancer gene mutations would cut related cancer deaths by ...
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Sociodemographic Differences Emerge In Young-Onset CRC
For early-onset colorectal cancer, researchers have found that American blacks, Native Americans, and Americans of ...
MAY 4, 2020
Rates of CRC in 90-Year-Olds Show Potential of Screening
New York—For older patients who remain in good health, colonoscopy screening may make sense well after the ...
JULY 13, 2017
ASCO Report: Insurance Increases Early Detection of Screenable Cancers
Patients who develop cancer that can be detected by screening are more likely to get an early-stage diagnosis if ...
MAY 31, 2017
Early Detection of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema
A lymphedema screening program should be integrated into the standard management of breast cancer patients before ...
DECEMBER 22, 2016
FDA Recommends Against Using Ovarian Cancer Screening Tests
Women and their physicians are being alerted about the risks associated with using tools marketed as ovarian cancer ...
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Primary Care Visits May Prompt More Colon Cancer Screenings
Patients who visited their primary care provider (PCP) at least once in a 12-month period were nearly twice as ...
JULY 27, 2016
Family Practitioners Show Gaps in Knowledge Concerning LDCT
Despite the effectiveness of low-dose CT compared with chest x-ray in lung cancer screening, a recent study from ...
JULY 19, 2016
Guidelines Highlight Importance of Colonoscopy After CRC Resection
The review found that patients who receive surveillance colonoscopy after CRC resection have lower overall, but not ...
MARCH 28, 2016
