More articles about: Cancer Screening
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The New Age to Get Your Colorectal Cancer Screening
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has lowered the recommended age of colorectal cancer screenings to 45 due to a rise in colorectal cancer cases among the younger population.
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Stop Procrastinating on These Key Health Checks
If you put them off because of the pandemic, now’s the time to get them scheduled.
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COVID Vaccines and Mammograms: What You Need To Know About Timing Your Imaging After Your Shot
Swollen lymph nodes can be a symptom of breast cancer, but they can also be a passing side effect of some COVID vaccines. One expert shares why you might want to wait a few weeks after getting your shot before getting your next mammogram.
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5 Behaviors to Help Prevent Cancer
It's estimated human choices and behaviors cause 40 to 50% of cancer deaths. Here are some lifestyle tips to help prevent certain kinds of cancer.
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Medicaid Expansion Doubled Access to Primary Care and Increased Attention to Health Risks in Low-Income Michiganders
Medicaid expansion in Michigan emphasized primary care and prevention, and based financial incentives for enrollees on examining health risks and engaging in healthy behaviors. Two new studies look at the results.
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Cervical Cancer Screening Numbers Drop Off in Women 45-65
Cervical cancer screening rates plummet in women 45-65, despite half of all cervical cancer diagnoses occurring in women over 49.
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Bladder Cancer Didn’t Silence Kalamazoo’s ‘Guitar Guru’
Guitarist and bladder cancer survivor, Rendal Wall of Kalamazoo, continues to live a life surrounded by music after bladder removal surgery.
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Top Health Stories of 2018
The year’s most-read articles range from need-to-know health tips and lifesaving facts about disease to a tale of survival that occurred thousands of miles away.
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A Holiday Gift to Primary Care Doctors: Proof of a Time Crunch
A study with a satirical spin drives home a real point about the demands on general practitioners’ time and expectations for shared decision-making in primary care.
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Why Many Older Patients with Low Risk Still Want Colorectal Cancer Screenings
A study of colonoscopy recipients finds mixed feelings about using age, life expectancy and risk calculators to guide screening. How doctors can steer the conversation.
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Clearing Up Myths About Skin Cancer in People of Color
Michigan Medicine dermatologist sets the record straight on common myths about skin cancer and people of color, urging everyone to get regular skin cancer screenings.
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Who Should Be Screened for Lung Cancer? The Evolving Science
The USPSTF recommends lung cancer screening for people ages 55 to 80 who have smoked the equivalent of a pack a day for 30 years.
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To Scan or Not to Scan: Personalizing Lung Cancer Screening
A new tool that takes into account personalized risks and benefits, and allows for a range of patient preferences, will help clinicians decide whom to screen for lung cancer.
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Don’t Neglect Routine Pap Tests, Woman Urges Others
Get information on cervical cancer screening guidelines and hear from a cervical cancer survivor why it is important to have routine pap smear and HPV tests.
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A Doctor’s Mission: Get More People Screened for Colon Cancer
A Michigan Medicine gastroenterologist has studied why patients skip the lifesaving test. He explains the necessity — and efforts designed to help.
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