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American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer
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The public is urged to take action to protect themselves and their loved ones from disease-causing substances.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Urology.The article was published on 2002-07-01. It has received 781 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer.read more
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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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Oral cancer and precancerous lesions.
Brad W. Neville,Terry A. Day +1 more
TL;DR: The clinical features of oral cancer and premalignant oral lesions are reviewed, with an emphasis on early detection.
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Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Wylie C. Hembree,Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis,Louis J. G. Gooren,Sabine E. Hannema,Walter J. Meyer,M. Hassan Murad,Stephen M. Rosenthal,Joshua D. Safer,Vin Tangpricha,Guy T'Sjoen +9 more
TL;DR: This evidence‐based guideline recommends treating gender‐dysphoric/gender‐incongruent adolescents who have entered puberty at Tanner Stage G2/B2 by suppression with gonadotropin‐releasing hormone agonists and recommends adding gender‐affirming hormones after a multidisciplinary team has confirmed the persistence of gender dysphoria/gender incongruence.
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Cochrane systematic review of colorectal cancer screening using the fecal occult blood test (hemoccult): an update.
TL;DR: This review confirms previous research demonstrating that FOBT screening reduces the risk of CRC mortality and indicates that there is no difference in all-cause mortality between the screened and nonscreened populations.
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Cancer Screening in Elderly Patients: A Framework for Individualized Decision Making
TL;DR: A framework to guide individualized cancer screening decisions in older patients may be more useful to the practicing clinician than age guidelines because it anchors decisions through quantitative estimates of life expectancy, risk of cancer death, and screening outcomes based on published data.
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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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Oral cancer and precancerous lesions.
Brad W. Neville,Terry A. Day +1 more
TL;DR: The clinical features of oral cancer and premalignant oral lesions are reviewed, with an emphasis on early detection.
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Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Wylie C. Hembree,Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis,Louis J. G. Gooren,Sabine E. Hannema,Walter J. Meyer,M. Hassan Murad,Stephen M. Rosenthal,Joshua D. Safer,Vin Tangpricha,Guy T'Sjoen +9 more
TL;DR: This evidence‐based guideline recommends treating gender‐dysphoric/gender‐incongruent adolescents who have entered puberty at Tanner Stage G2/B2 by suppression with gonadotropin‐releasing hormone agonists and recommends adding gender‐affirming hormones after a multidisciplinary team has confirmed the persistence of gender dysphoria/gender incongruence.
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Cochrane systematic review of colorectal cancer screening using the fecal occult blood test (hemoccult): an update.
TL;DR: This review confirms previous research demonstrating that FOBT screening reduces the risk of CRC mortality and indicates that there is no difference in all-cause mortality between the screened and nonscreened populations.
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Endocrine Treatment of Transsexual Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline
Wylie C. Hembree,Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis,Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal,Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal,Louis J. G. Gooren,Walter J. Meyer,Norman P. Spack,Vin Tangpricha,Victor M. Montori +8 more
TL;DR: This evidence-based guideline was developed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system to describe the strength of recommendations and the quality of evidence, which was low or very low.