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Breast cancer mortality has dropped by 30 percent over the last 20 years. This has partly been due to better treatment of breast cancer but it has mostly been caused by increased screening and the findings of cancer earlier and earlier. Last year, guidelines changed to allow screening of breast cancer after age fifty with [...]
Written by Tituslow on April 1st, 2010 with no comments.
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These are not tests done very often but if you have a family history of aneurysms or stroke, or have a history of Marfan syndrome, you’ll want to be screened for these conditions. Stroke is relatively common. Stroke, in fact, is the third leading cause of death in the US. Strokes happen when there are [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 30th, 2010 with no comments.
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One third of all citizens worldwide have tuberculosis in some form or another. For this reason, it is important to screen for TB in high risk populations. Generally not all people are screened for tuberculosis but, with the rate so high, perhaps they should be. Actually, the high rate of TB comes from third world [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 28th, 2010 with no comments.
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Most people don’t think of screening for obesity but, with the latest epidemic in obesity and its related disorders, doctors are starting to screen for the condition and to begin to screen obese people for diseases known to be associated with obesity.
Doctors do a BMI test to screen for obesity. BMI stands for body [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 27th, 2010 with no comments.
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Women are so used to caring for their families and taking care of the home that managing their own healthcare can be their undoing. There are five very important and lifesaving screening tests that women need to consider as a part of their routine lives. Healthcare is one thing women can’t afford to skimp on. [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 26th, 2010 with no comments.
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There are some schools joining a fight against cardiac arrhythmias by screening healthy children with a resting ECG. The test, which isn’t painful or invasive, tests the electrical activity of the heart and, in some cases, would show heart arrhythmias that could prove to be fatal, especially in sports-related situations.
Sudden death in children due [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 25th, 2010 with no comments.
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A new national bowel cancer screening program in the UK is expected to save 2500 lives per year by the year 2025, according to a new study on the topic. The screening program includes doing fecal occult blood testing on all individual s over the age of fifty and doing colonoscopy on all people who [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 22nd, 2010 with no comments.
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For years, the Pap test has been the optimal screening test for cervical cancer. Using a Q-tip or small brush, sampling of the cervix is taken and the cells are examined under a microscope. There are two types of Pap tests, the test which puts the cells directly on the microscope slide and the thin [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 22nd, 2010 with no comments.
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Cancer seems to come up unexpectedly, as if there were no warnings or hints that the disease might actually happen. This is because we fail to recognize that, in some cases, cancer is, in fact, preventable. If we can prevent cancer, why don’t we ever hear about it and what can we really do to [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 20th, 2010 with no comments.
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Recently, a colon screening blood test was announced by the EDP Biotech Corporation. It’s been touted as a “revolutionary test” in the screening for colon cancer, with its makers believing the test can save thousands of lives by picking up colon cancer early enough to treat it before it becomes invasive.
The test, not yet [...]
Written by Tituslow on March 20th, 2010 with no comments.
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