WASHINGTON -- Women are now advised to get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40 and until age 74, according to new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF, a ...

Associations were seen for lack of health insurance coverage, being a rural resident, and not having a clinician with decreased odds of screening. HealthDay News — Increased lung cancer screening ...

Here are five recommendations regarding prevention and screening of colorectal cancer, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. 1. The USPSTF recommends screening for colorectal cancer ...

Researchers compared ACS to USPSTF lung cancer screening criteria, assessing how ACS criteria affected overall eligibility as eligibility in racial/ethnic/gender subgroups.

Editor's note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine.When I learned that ...

Prostate cancer diagnoses decreased by 28% in the first year following the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation against regular prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening, ...

Credit: Getty Images Investigators compared radical prostatectomy outcomes before and after the USPSTF downgraded PSA screening. Reducing PSA-based screening appears to have contributed to delayed ...

Summer V Allen; Lise Solberg Nes; Mary L Marnach; Kristen Polga; Sarah M Jenkins; Julia A Files; Ivana T Croghan; Karthik Ghosh; Sandhya Pruthi The current study sought to investigate the impact of ...

Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has been recommended for US adults aged 45 to 49 years. This study examined the rate and predictors of CRC screening in 202 ...

Overall, the findings suggest that a shift away from one-size-fits-all mammography toward personalized screening schedules could save more lives with less collateral harm by screening more ...

A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine sought to evaluate whether suggestions by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were aligned with what preventive services are actually covered by ...