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From:Occupational Health (Issue 430) Peer-ReviewedA workplace intervention can increase colorectal cancer screening rates, according to this study of Californian firefighters. A testing kit, letter and survey of firefighters’ risk factors were sent to 1,203...
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From:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: T. Pandey Cancer screening is a well established and integral part of routine care in the Western world including United States. Men and women are recommended to get age-specific screening for common cancers...
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From:Journal of Carcinogenesis (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Puja. Gaur, Min. Kim, Brian. Dunkin The incidence of esophageal cancer remains on the rise worldwide and despite aggressive research in the field of gastrointestinal oncology, the survival remains poor. Much...
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From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 136, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed* Lung cancer is the most common cause of death from cancer in the United States. Previous studies of screening with chest radiographs and sputum cytology have not been shown to decrease lung cancer mortality. For the...
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From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 136, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedDiagnosis and treatment of lung cancer have undergone a major transformation during the past few years, generating tremendous excitement among physicians and patients. Although many of these advances are still in early...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 184, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedFor decades, women have been alarmed by the "1 in 9" lifetime prevalence statistic for breast cancer (1) while being reassured that, by participating in screening, early detection was their best hope for survival. At...
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From:The Practitioner (Vol. 254, Issue 1733) Peer-ReviewedTHE DEBATE ON PSA SCREENING TO DETECT PROSTATE CANCER IS ONGOING. TWO LARGE studies published in 2009 gave an unclear message. The European ERSPC trial showed a significant reduction in prostate cancer mortality as a...
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From:Indian Journal of Cancer (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: H. Ahmed, A. Ali, A. Almobarak Background: Breast cancer mortality is high in Sudan and most patients are detected at later stages of the disease due to the lack of awareness and absence of screening...
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From:Clinical Advisor (Vol. 13, Issue 6)WITH SUMMER under way, clinicians need to remind their older patients about the importance of skin-cancer screening. A recent analysis of 10,486 white men and women aged 50 years and older found such examinations to be...
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From:Indian Journal of Cancer (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: M. Venkatramana, J. Sreedharan, J. Muttappallymyalil, M. Thomas Aim: Found to be effective in its treatment. The increased incidence of breast cancer supports the implementation of breast cancer screening...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 22, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedClinical question When patients undergo repeated screenings for multiple cancers, how often do false-positive results occur? Bottom line Almost half the healthy adults undergoing repeated multimodal cancer screening...
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From:Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Jayashree. Krishnamurthy, Firdos. Saba, Sunila. Primary mucinous carcinoma (PMC) of the skin is a rare adnexal tumor of sweat gland origin. A case report is presented of a 50-year-old female who presented...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 22, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAccording to current estimates for the year 2009, 192,370 women and 1,910 men will develop breast cancer, (1) and 21,550 women will develop ovarian cancer. (2) BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations are responsible for 5% to...
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From:Future Oncology (Vol. 5, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Emily Power 1 , Anne Miles 2 , Christian von Wagner 3 , Katie Robb 4 , Jane Wardle [[dagger]] 5 Keywords: Keywords colorectal cancer; disparities; ethnicity; participation; psychosocial; review;...
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From:Cancer Nursing Practice (Vol. 8, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme has launched a DVD to explain how to correctly complete a bowel screening home test kit. A three-minute cartoon features a man who receives his pack through the post. The...
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From:Future Microbiology (Vol. 6, Issue 9)Author(s): Vikrant V Sahasrabuddhe 1 , Patricia Luhn 1 , Nicolas Wentzensen [[dagger]] 2 Keywords * accuracy; biomarkers; cervical cancer; HPV; prevention; risk prediction; screening Cervical cancer:...
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From:Personalized Medicine (Vol. 5, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sharon A Savage 1 Keywords : cancer; cancer risk; genome-wide association study; genomics; population genetics; SNP Genetic risk of cancer Cancer is a complex, multifactorial disease with...
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From:Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jari J Rautio [[dagger]] 1 , Reetta Satokari 2 , Pirjo Vehmaan-Kreula 3 , Elina Serkkola 4 , Hans Söderlund 5 Keywords: biotechnical process; cancer gene marker; gene expression; high-content screening;...
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From:Biomarkers in Medicine (Vol. 1, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Nathalie Scholler [[dagger]] 1 , Nicole Urban 2 Keywords: biomarker; CA125; detection; disease monitoring; galectin-1; glycoprotein; mesothelin; natural killer; ovarian cancer; pregnancy CA125 is one...
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From:Health and Social Work (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents findings from research to develop the promotional component of a breast cancer screening program for Native Hawaiian women associated with historically Hawaiian churches in medically underserved...