News tagged with screening rates
Prostate cancer screenings at VA hospitals don't follow guidelines for elderly, study says
(Medical Xpress) -- Veterans Affairs hospitals screen elderly men with limited life expectancies for prostate cancer at surprisingly high rates, even though guidelines recommend against such screening, according ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Breakthrough in early cancer detection
Cape Cod-TV correspondent Melissa Chartrand went into the hospital three years ago to undergo a hysterectomy, a common procedure that was supposed to eliminate her abdominal pains. But for Melissa, a far more serious pain ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Study: men less willing to be screened for cancer
Although men have higher cancer mortality rates than women, they are less willing to be screened for cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues at Sanoa Consulting ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Colon cancer screening campaign erases racial, gender gaps in use of colonoscopy
Since the 1970s, U.S. mortality rates due to colorectal cancer have declined overall, yet among blacks and Hispanics, the death rates rose. Evidence suggests that underuse of colonoscopy screening among these groups is one ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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BreastScreen: balancing benefits and harms
New research has questioned the relative impact of mammographic screening in reducing deaths from breast cancer, concluding that it is not responsible for most of the recent reduction in mortality rates and ...
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Rural mothers-to-be in China lack syphilis testing
(AP) -- Nearly half of pregnant women do not get tested for syphilis in poor areas of southern China where the sexually transmitted disease has seen a resurgence, researchers said Wednesday.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Doctors: Pap remains best test for cervical cancer
There's more news on cancer screening tests - this time for women. Scientists advising the government say a Pap test is a good way to screen young and middle-aged women for cervical cancer, and it's only needed once every ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Mammography use up for US immigrants
While mammography rates have improved among foreign-born women residing in the United States, these women are still less likely to have undergone breast cancer screening than native-born U.S. women.
Sep 19, 2011 |
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New hybrid imaging device shows promise in spotting hard-to-detect ovarian cancer
By combining three previously unrelated imaging tools into one new device, a team of researchers from the University of Connecticut and the University of Southern California has proposed a new way to diagnose ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Colon cancer deaths down except in Mississippi
Colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America - except in Mississippi, health officials said Tuesday.
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Early embryos can correct genetic abnormalities during development
Professor William G. Kearns told the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that a three-day-old embryo (called a cleavage stage embryo) with an incorrect number of chromosomes (known ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Health providers should emphasize breast cancer screening, research finds
Wayne State University researchers believe medical practitioners can help reduce the number of breast cancer deaths among low-income African-American women by more effectively educating their patients about the importance ...
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Fracture prediction methods may be useful for patients with diabetes
Use of established fracture prediction methods in older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) found that scores from these methods were associated with hip and nonspine fracture risk, and a certain score associated ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Patient navigators appear to improve colorectal cancer screening rate in ethnically diverse patients
Among low-income patients who are black or whose primary language is not English, patient navigators may help improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates, according to a report in the May 23 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Improvements in embryonic preimplantation genetic screening techniques
A Short Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (CGH) method has been developed to carry out preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) by analysing all chromosomes and transferring selected embryos to the recipient uterus in the ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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