Cancer Screening

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has concluded there is not enough evidence to recommend skin cancer screenings by primary care physicians in adolescents and adults without symptoms.

There is not yet enough evidence to adequately assess the benefit-harm balance of screening for skin cancer in asymptomatic adolescents and adults, according to a statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

High incidence of lung cancer paired with stable lung cancer-related mortality rates when low-dose CT screening was introduced suggests overdiagnosis, specifically in women, according to study results published in CHEST.

Girls born to mothers with higher BMIs had a greater risk for obesity compared with those born to mothers with normal BMIs, according to a recent study.

Mailing HPV self-sampling kits to women who are overdue for cervical cancer screening was cost-effective in increasing screening uptake compared with usual care, according to an economic evaluation published in JAMA Network Open.

A colorectal cancer screening program in Denmark that used fecal immunochemical testing detected more cases among adults with diabetes and more cases at stage I of the disease than among those without diabetes, according to data published in Diabetic Medicine.

Colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled for adults aged 45 to 49 years after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the recommended age to start screening, a study by Epic Research found.

A prostate cancer polygenic risk score did not better predict the risk for aggressive disease compared with a clinical risk predictor and may not be clinically useful, according to study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Defensive strategies, such as denying immediacy of testing or exempting oneself, are key barriers to at-home colorectal cancer screening, according to study results published in Cancer.

Foreign-born individuals who recently immigrated to the United States had lower adherence to colorectal cancer screening than foreign-born individuals who have lived in the U.S. longer and those born in the country, data show.