For more than two decades, colonoscopy has been promoted as the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Policy makers ...

New ACP guidance suggests starting mammograms at 50 instead of 40 for average-risk women, one every two years, sparking ...

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers—has published a new book explaining ...

Recommendations say clinicians should use biennial mammography for breast cancer screening in asymptomatic, average-risk women aged 50 to 74 years ...

Alongside improved colorectal cancer treatment, benefits are "more modest," expert says ...

Author Dr. Mark Fendrick is the director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design at the University of Michigan and professor in internal medicine and health management and policy.

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El ...

ST. LOUIS – November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the Siteman Cancer Center is emphasizing the importance of lung cancer screenings for early detection. The screenings are primarily recommended ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer screening reduces cancer-related mortality and does not significantly increase noncancer-related deaths.

Some screenings and treatments no longer make sense for patients as they age. Researchers have just added a few more to the ...

Free, comprehensive guidebook shows how prostate cancer screening has largely deemphasized invasive testing in order to avoid unnecessary procedures and treatment while at the same time saving ...