Cancer Screening

A novel high-sensitivity screening approach led to detection of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance at significantly higher rates than conventional methods among people at high risk for multiple myeloma, study results showed.

The protective effect of a single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in older adults was maintained for up 15 years against colorectal cancer incidence and for up to 19 years against mortality, according to a randomized controlled trial.

In this video exclusive with Healio Gastroenterology, Swati G. Patel MD, MS, discussed the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer’s updated screening recommendations for colorectal cancer.

Substantial reductions in procedures used to diagnose cancer and in new cancer diagnoses occurred across the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review of a large database of U.S. veterans published in Cancer.

The value of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening is important from the perspective of the business aspect and also patient care aspect, according to a speaker at GI Outlook.

Transgender men and nonbinary individuals derived benefit from a pilot program designed to offer cervical cancer screening specific to their biological needs and personal preferences, according to study results.

Karen M. Winkfield, MD, PhD, spoke with Healio about a lecture on precision medicine she gave at this year’s Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium.

In this video, Julie A. Barta, MD, pulmonologist and assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, spoke with Healio about takeaways for oncologists from CHEST 2021.

In this video, Julie A. Barta, MD, pulmonologist and assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, talks with Healio about a discussion on controversial new lung cancer screening guidance presented at CHEST.

Peter J. Mazzone, MD, MPH, pulmonologist and director of the lung cancer program for the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic, discussed takeaways for oncologists from the CHEST annual meeting.