Robert A. Smith

TL;DR: This committee presents one key recommendation for community action to accompany the four recommendations for individual choices to reduce cancer risk, recognizing that a supportive social environment is indispensable if individuals at all levels of society are to have genuine opportunities to choose healthy behaviors.

TL;DR: Based on the results of the National Lung Screening Trial, the American Cancer Society is issuing an initial guideline for lung cancer screening as mentioned in this paper, which recommends that clinicians with access to high-volume, high-quality screening and treatment centers should initiate a discussion about screening with apparently healthy patients aged 55 years to 74 years who have at least a 30-pack-year smoking history and who currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years.

TL;DR: Focus groups addressed specific issues in breast pathology, radiation therapy, and management of locally advanced disease and indicated that cancer prevention through health behavior modification could influence breast cancer incidence in LMCs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an update of the most recent data pertaining to participation rates in cancer screening by age, sex, and insurance status from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

TL;DR: The Swedish Two-County Trial as mentioned in this paper is a randomized controlled trial of invitation to breast cancer screening, with 133,000 women randomized between 1977 and 1979 to regular invitation to screening or to no invitation.