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COMMENTARY
- Guest Commentary by Dr. Otis Brawley: The Benefits and Harms of Cancer Screening
- A Conversation with Dr. Virginia Moyer, Chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
FEATURES
- Crunching Numbers: What Cancer Screening Statistics Really Tell Us
- Using an Ocean of Data, Researchers Model Real-Life Benefits of Cancer Screening
- After Landmark Study, Exploring Questions about Lung Cancer Screening
- Building a Better Cancer Screening Process
- All That Glitters: A Glimpse into the Future of Cancer Screening
- Selected Resources: Cancer Screening
MULTIMEDIA
- Inside NCI: Dr. Barry Kramer on Cancer Screening
- Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Cancer Screening
- Infographic: Benefits and Harms of PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer
NEWS
- Decades of Data Point to Overdiagnosis from Breast Cancer Screening
- After Negative Colonoscopy, Rescreening with Other Tests May Be Effective
- Longer Delays in Breast Cancer Treatment May Affect Survival
- Fusion Gene Linked to Rare Form of Childhood Leukemia
- Alternative Type of Brachytherapy Proves Effective in Mice
UPDATES
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Selected Resources: Cancer Screening
Selected Resources: Cancer Screening
General
- Screening and Testing to Detect Cancer
- Physician Data Query (PDQ®) Cancer Information Summaries: Screening/Detection
- Cancer Screening Overview (PDQ): [patient] [health professional]
- Fact Sheet: Tumor Markers
Bladder and Other Urothelial Cancers Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) Screening Recommendations for Bladder Cancer (2011)
Breast Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- Fact Sheet: Mammograms
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Breast Cancer (2009)
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for BRCA Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer (2005)
Cervical Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- Fact Sheet: Pap and HPV Testing
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Cervical Cancer (2012)
Colorectal Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- Fact Sheet: Tests to Detect Colorectal Cancer and Polyps
- CDC: Colorectal Cancer Screening
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Colorectal Cancer (2008)
Endometrial Cancer Screening
Esophageal Cancer Screening
Stomach (Gastric) Cancer Screening
Liver (Hepatocellular) Cancer Screening
Lung Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- Patient and Physician Guide: National Lung Screening Trial (pdf)
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Lung Cancer (2004)
Neuroblastoma Screening
Oral Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Oral Cancer (2004)
Ovarian Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for , BRCA Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer (2005)
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Ovarian Cancer (2012)
Pancreatic Cancer Screening
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Pancreatic Cancer (2004)
Prostate Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- Fact Sheet: Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test
- Infographic: Benefits and Harms of PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Prostate Cancer (2012)
Skin Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Skin Cancer (2009)
Testicular Cancer Screening
- PDQ: [patient] [health professional]
- USPSTF Screening Recommendations for Testicular Cancer (2011)


