Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- This week, the American Cancer Society releases updated prostate cancer screening guidelines.
Wilkes, an expert on prostate cancer screening, came to the same conclusion almost two years ago.
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The only approved HPV test on the market is for women, for use in cervical-cancer screening.
More than a third of women over 50 are not getting routine breast cancer screening.
The gene-based technique marks a new approach toward cancer screening, and specialists are watching closely.
Data and studies abound supporting any and all positions on the breast cancer screening question.
Yet, a difference that small cannot account for a three- to four-fold difference in cancer screening rates.
The dense-breast debate comes at a time when the value of breast-cancer screening in general is being questioned.
Through the breast cancer screening program, more than 30 malignancies--most of them in their early stages--have been detected.
This may be news to many who regularly read or hear reports suggesting that prostate cancer screening is beneficial.
Preventive care, such as some types of cancer screening, will be free of co-payments or deductibles starting in 2010.
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In November, 2009, the USPSTF released updated guidelines on breast cancer screening protocols.
Professor McVie said in the absence of more evidence the campaign remained sceptical about the value of prostate cancer screening.
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More recently, it rebuffed routine prostate-cancer screening and the use of tests that detect the viruses that can cause cervical cancer.
In her role as a patient navigator, Trout does community outreach to raise awareness about the importance of breast cancer screening.
Richard Winder, deputy national coordinator of NHS cancer screening programmes, said a minority of British women with the disease had mastectomies.
They devoted comparatively little time or effort to inoculating patients, advising them to stop smoking, providing breast-cancer screening and so forth.
There is no special cancer screening recommended for patients with celiac disease.
Or, take the example of prostate cancer screening on a certain demographic.
One intervention that begins at age 50 is colon cancer screening.
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Nearly half of Americans over 50 are not getting colon cancer screening.
Uninsured adults are also much less likely to receive vaccinations, cancer screening services such as mammography and colonoscopy, and other effective preventive services.
There are legitimate questions as to whether prostate cancer screening saves lives, and there is clear evidence that it leads to unnecessary treatment.
In the case of cancer screening, the countervailing truth is that early detection is the single-most-important and durable factor in individual cancer survival.
Recall the collective angst over and instantaneous political reaction to U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's retrenchment in late 2009 on breast cancer screening.
Once all three of us were situated in the exam room, the physician went through why my husband should get colon cancer screening.
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However, a UK collaborative trial of ovarian cancer screening began a few years ago to look at the feasibility of introducing a programme.
The Hopkins research piggybacks on one of the most successful cancer screening tools, the Pap, and a newer technology used along with it.
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