Updated Screening Guidelines for 5 Cancer Types
An update on the available cancer screening guidelines, benefits/limitations, and risks for cervical, breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancers.
An update on the available cancer screening guidelines, benefits/limitations, and risks for cervical, breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancers.
At-home HPV self-sampling may be a viable option to increase cervical screening rates in rural, underserved women.
Cervical cancer screening rates remained below normal levels even after the stay-at-home order was lifted.
There is strong evidence supporting the use of radiation therapy for nonmetastatic cervical cancer.
Dr Harvey W. Kaufman and colleagues examined the results of LBC/HPV cotesting in 13,633,071 women aged ≥30 years, tested in 2010 to 2018.
For women undergoing HPV-based cervical cancer screening, automated evaluation of p16/Ki-67 dual-stained slides reduces the number of colposcopies compared with current standards.
Findings based on comparison to hormonal intrauterine devices.
Screening rates are insufficient to reduce cervical cancer incidence.
Researchers sought to identify the potential influence of stress-related psychiatric disorders and stressful life events on cancer-specific mortality in women with cervical cancer.
Findings show radical hysterectomy at high-volume centers tied to better survival in early cervical cancer.