cancer screening programs
Cost-savings Of Colorectal Cancer Screening As Treatment Costs Increase
Investing in some colorectal cancer screening programs could cut future, more expensive treatment costs in half, according to a new study. The only screening program found not to be cost-saving was ...
Overdiagnosis Since Introduction Of Prostate Cancer Screening
The introduction of prostate-antigen screening, or PSA, has resulted in over one million additional men over the last 23 years being diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer -- most of whom were ...
Even In A Safety Net Health System, Colorectal Cancer Screening Disparities Remain
Colorectal cancer screening rates are much lower among those in a safety net health system compared to the national average, and the number one predictor of screening is a combination of regular ...
Survey: Men May Not Be Adequately Involved In Decisions About Prostate Cancer Screening
Men largely make decisions about prostate cancer screening based on conversations with their clinicians, but these discussions often do not include information about the risks of testing in addition ...
Experts Issue Call To Reconsider Screening For Breast Cancer And Prostate Cancer
Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer -- the most diagnosed cancer for women and men -- have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts in an ...
Detecting The Undetectable In Prostate Cancer Screening
Researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, have detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical ...
Vaccination And Testing For The Human Papilloma Virus Could Eradicate Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer could be eradicated within the next 50 years if countries implement national screening programs based on detection of the human papilloma virus, which causes the disease, together with ...
Screening Guidelines For Breast, Cervical And Colorectal Cancers Redefined
Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly ...
Research Points To New Target For Stopping Colon Cancer
New research has found a drug target that suggests a potent way to kill colon cancers that resist current drugs aimed at blocking a molecule found on the surface of ...
Tumors Feel The Deadly Sting Of Nanobees
When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells. Researchers attached the major component of bee venom to nano-sized spheres ...
