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Cancer screening in the United States, 2015: a review of current American cancer society guidelines and current issues in cancer screening.

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The American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes a summary of its guidelines for early cancer detection along with a report on data and trends in cancer screening rates and select issues related to cancer screening as mentioned in this paper.
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Each year, the American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes a summary of its guidelines for early cancer detection along with a report on data and trends in cancer screening rates and select issues related to cancer screening. In this issue of the journal, we summarize current ACS cancer screening guidelines. The latest data on utilization of cancer screening from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) also is described, as are several issues related to screening coverage under the Affordable Care Act, including the expansion of the Medicaid program.

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NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines

TL;DR: Lymphedema is a common complication after treatment for breast cancer and factors associated with increased risk of lymphedEMA include extent of axillary surgery, axillary radiation, infection, and patient obesity.
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Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2016: Progress and opportunities in reducing racial disparities

TL;DR: Although blacks continue to have higher cancer death rates than whites, the disparity has narrowed and the racial gap in death rates has widened for all cancers combined in men and women and for lung and prostate cancers in men.
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Autosomal Dominant Inheritance of Early-Onset Breast Cancer: Implications for Risk Prediction

TL;DR: Age-specific risks for a woman with one or more relatives affected with breast cancer at various ages at onset are given and genetic models fit previously to these data by the authors have provided evidence for a rare autosomal dominant allele that results in increased susceptibility to breast cancer.
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Cancer screening in the United States, 2018: A review of current American Cancer Society guidelines and current issues in cancer screening

TL;DR: The new American Cancer Society colorectal cancer screening guidelines are summarized and a clarification in the language of the 2013 lung cancer screening guideline is included.
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Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening.

TL;DR: Screening with the use of low-dose CT reduces mortality from lung cancer, as compared with the radiography group, and the rate of death from any cause was reduced.
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Projecting Individualized Probabilities of Developing Breast Cancer for White Females Who Are Being Examined Annually

TL;DR: To assist in medical counseling, a method to estimate the chance that a woman with given age and risk factors will develop breast cancer over a specified interval is presented and individualized breast cancer probabilities are calculated.
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