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Curtis Mettlin

Researcher at Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Publications -  153
Citations -  10770

Curtis Mettlin is an academic researcher from Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Prostate cancer. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 153 publications receiving 10636 citations. Previous affiliations of Curtis Mettlin include Duke University.

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American Cancer Society guidelines for the early detection of cancer.

TL;DR: Recommendations for the “cancer‐related check‐up,” in which clinical encounters provide case‐finding and health counseling opportunities, and an update of the most recent data pertaining to participation rates in cancer screening by age, gender, and ethnicity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey.
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Adult soft tissue sarcomas. A pattern of care survey of the American College of Surgeons.

TL;DR: Survival curves support the prognostic validity of the AJCCS system and the value of complete resection of soft tissue sarcomas and adverse prognostic factors included positive surgical margins, large tumors, retro- peritoneal or mediastinal primary sites, and the perceived need for adjuvant therapy.
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The American cancer society national prostate cancer detection project. Findings on the detection of early prostate cancer in 2425 men

TL;DR: Preliminary data suggest the feasibility of using digital rectal examination, transrectal ultrasound, and prostate specific antigen assay for prostate cancer detection to promote cancer control, but additional data and follow-up are needed.
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Aspirin use, cancer, and polyps of the large bowel

TL;DR: The effect of aspirin use on 490 patients with cancer of the colon, 340 withcancer of the rectum as the first primary site, and 212 patients with polyps having no coexisting malignancies was compared with that of two groups of control subjects that consisted of 524 hospital patients having no cancers and no diseases of the digestive organs.