Update in Cancer Screening, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

1st Edition, Volume 104-6 - October 28, 2020
Editors: Robert A. Smith, Kevin Oeffinger
Language: English
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This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Robert A. Smith and Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, is devoted to Cancer Screening and Prevention. Articles in this important issue cover the development of cancer screening guidelines, implementing cancer screening in the clinical setting, and screening for colorectal, lung, cervical, prostate, skin, and ovarian cancer.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
CME Accreditation Page
Forthcoming Issues
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
The Importance of Cancer Screening
Key points
Introduction
The Burden of Cancer
The role of prevention and early detection in the control of cancer
The role of cancer screening in the control of cancer
Utilization of cancer screening in the United States
Summary
The Evaluation of Cancer Screening: Concepts and Outcome Measures
Key points
Introduction
Cancer screening evaluation techniques: proof of principle
Service screening evaluation
Assessment of quality of screening
Innovations to existing screening programs
Summary
The Development of Cancer Screening Guidelines
Key points
Introduction
The evolution of cancer screening guidelines/recommendations
A new era in guideline development
Guideline evaluation
Summary
Increasing Cancer Screening Rates in Primary Care
Key points
Barriers to screening
General principles of screening
Interventions to increase cancer screening
A Roadmap to Increasing Screening Rates
Cancer Screening in Older Adults: Individualized Decision-Making and Communication Strategies
Key points
Introduction
Approach to individualized decision making
Breast cancer screening
Colorectal cancer screening
Lung cancer screening
Prostate cancer screening
Communicating cancer screening recommendations
Summary
Clinics care points
Screening for Breast Cancer
Key points
Introduction
Guideline development methods
Benefits of early detection through mammographic screening
Harms associated with mammographic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
Current guidelines
Clinical breast examination
Opportunities to build consensus
Summary
Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Key points
Introduction
Burden of colorectal cancer in United States
Natural history of colorectal cancer development
Colorectal cancer risk factors
Colorectal cancer risk factors: family history and genetic syndromes
Colorectal cancer screening effectiveness
How guidelines differ between national societies’ screening recommendations
Colorectal cancer screening in the United States: how can it be improved?
Key recommendations for implementing screening in the primary care setting
Screening for Lung Cancer
Key points
Introduction
Evidence for lung cancer screening
Primary care physician attitudes toward low-dose computed tomography screening
Implementation of lung cancer screening in primary care practice
Smoking cessation
Shared decision making
Implementing lung cancer screening programs
Summary
Screening for Prostate Cancer
Key points
Introduction
Clinical care points
Summary
Screening for Cervical Cancer
Key points
Human papillomavirus infection causes cervical cancer: epidemiology and background
Primary prevention: human papillomavirus vaccination
Secondary prevention: cervical cancer screening
What tests are used for screening?
Who should be screened?
How should individuals be followed after abnormal results?
Practical implications
Discussion
Summary

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