Cancer Screening in Primary Care: So Much Progress, So Much Left to Do

In this update on cancer screening, it is sobering to realize that the first comprehensive evaluation of cancer screening guidelines took place 40 years ago when the American Cancer Society (ACS) commissioned Dr David Eddy and his colleagues to apply the principles of evidence-based medicine to the ACS ’ recommendations for the early detection of cancer.1 Shortly thereafter in 1984, the US Preventive Services Task Force was commissioned and charged with bringing evidence-based medicine to the evaluation of common interventions in the primary care setting, and 5 years later, issued its first repo rt on 169 preventive health interventions, including several cancer screening tests.
Source: Medical Clinics of North America - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research