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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 ...
Vital Signs: Screening: Many Doctors Do Unneeded Pap Smears, Study Finds
A survey of 1,212 primary care doctors found that most had overused cervical cancer ...
Food Label Program to Suspend Operations
The government is working on new regulations for food labeling after criticism of the Smart Choices ...
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 ...
Prostate cancer screening: More harm than good?
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Routine screening for prostate cancer has resulted in more than 1 million U.S. men being diagnosed with tumors who might otherwise have suffered no ill effects from them, U.S. ...
No Evidence To Support Ovarian Cancer Screening, Australian Experts Agree
In an Australian first, leading experts and organizations have agreed a position statement on screening for ovarian cancer, Australia's leading cause of death from gynecological ...
