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The 2009 USPSTF (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) guidelines have reopened the question of mass population mammographic screening, especially after the results of a Swedish study in which 133,000 women with no history of breast cancer were randomized to undergo either screening, once every 2 [...]
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November 2010 saw the publishing of the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST): low-dose CT screening of lung cancer in smokers reduced specific mortality. Approximately 53,000 current and former smokers (aged 55-75, with positive smoking anamnesis) were randomized to receive, for a [...]
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Tamoxifen and raloxifene reduce the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk for this disease. A third drug, exemestane, an aromatase inhibitor, is now on the market. A study, partly funded by the pharmaceutical industry, investigated 4,560 postmenopausal women who met at least one of the [...]
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Medical papers have been published showing canine ability in detecting skin, bladder, lung, breast and uterine cancer through scent. A group of investigators from St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Center in Chiba (Japan), have used an 8-year-old female Labrador to assess her ability to detect [...]
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Ovarian cancer is among the worst forms of tumor, and because of its vague and nonspecific symptoms, which usually appear when the disease has already reached an advanced stage, it has a high mortality rate. For this reason, since screening which may show cancer at an early stage is highly [...]
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Alcohol consumption is associated with the risk of a high number of cancer types, but the proportion of these types of cancer imputable to alcohol consumption is not clear, so some researchers have analyzed the data relative to 110,000 males and 255,000 females not affected by any kind of cancer, [...]
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With a study performed in Scandinavia in 2008 it was seen that, in a 10-year follow-up, subjects with localized prostate cancer presented a lower mortality and metastatization if they underwent radical prostatectomy rather than simple observation (Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study). In that [...]
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A meta-analysis has been performed on 6 randomized studies on prostate cancer screening, and a clear overdiagnosis resulted, which has lowered neither overall mortality, nor specific one. Now, a new study is being added to the already published ones, with the evaluation of screening influence on [...]
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With a recent cross-sectional study it was seen that the presence of large serrated polyps is an independent risk factor for colorectal synchronous cancers; according to this matter, two new studies have been performed.
The first one has involved 3121 patients undergoing screening colonoscopy in [...]
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There is a clear prevalence of colorectal cancer in western countries, which can be easily explained with an association between this type of cancer and lifestyle. Through a prospective study performed in Denmark, more than 55,000 people between 50 and 64 years of age have been examined, [...]