Cancer Screening

Older adults who were given personalized information about benefits and harms of colorectal cancer screening were more likely to receive screening orders that aligned with benefit, reducing overall use of screening, researchers reported.

The cost of liquid biopsy for second-line colorectal cancer screening was not cost-effective and would have to be reduced by 66% to increase uptake among the general population, according to data in JAMA Network Open.

Study findings support performing surveillance colonoscopy 7 to 10 years after detection and polypectomy of baseline non-advanced adenoma rather than at 5 years, researchers wrote in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Researchers noted a substantial overlap between patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and those referred to undergo lung cancer diagnostics, according to research presented at ESMO Congress.

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Diagnosing early-stage lung cancer through low-dose CT screening significantly improves its cure rate, according to data published in Radiology.

At any given PSA level, Black men are more likely than white men to harbor prostate cancer, according to analyses of a Veterans Health Administration cohort.

The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System, has launched the Firefighter Cancer Initiative mobile health clinic for the prevention and detection of cancer in the firefighter population.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A digital risk assessment tool and genetic testing program can be helpful in identifying patients with high-risk cancer susceptibility syndromes, according to a presenter at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

The American Cancer Society has updated its lung cancer screening guideline to recommend yearly lung cancer screening for asymptomatic smokers or previous smokers aged 50 to 80 years with a 20-year or greater pack-year history.