Risk score decides who gets invasive colorectal screening
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Study questions evidence that screening reduces mortality
Italian men shun flexible sigmoidoscopy for CTC
No cost difference between CTC, colonoscopy in elderly
CDC: Cancer screening compliance is lagging
Optical colonoscopy misses polyps detected on CTC (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - September 11, 2015 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Doctors Aren't Recommending Colon Cancer Tests To Those Who Need It Most
By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) - Racial minorities may be more likely to forego colon cancer screening than whites because their healthcare providers don't recommend the potentially life-saving tests, a new study in California suggests. "It was interesting because this study suggests that one of the things we need to do . . . is talk to doctors," said Dr. Folasade May, who led the study. "We can do all the public policy we want, but we need to make it very clear to providers that they should emphasize colon cancer screening and more importantly recommend colon cancer screening to p...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 25, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
When To Get Screened For These 5 Cancer Tumors, According To American College Of Physicians
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mammograms at 40 or 50? Every year or every other year? What's the best colon check?
Screening for cancer has gotten more complicated in recent years with evolving guidelines that sometimes conflict. Now a doctors' group aims to ease some confusion — and encourage more discussion of testing's pros and cons — with what it calls advice on "high-value screening" for five types of tumors.
Too often, even the doctors who order those tests aren't sure of the latest recommendations, said Dr. Wayne J. Riley, president of the American College of Physicians, which published the advice Monday in the journal ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Climbing mountains: “I won’t let ulcerative colitis define me”
Mark Donohue craves outdoor activity. While most were braving Old Man Winter’s 2015 wrath, this 19-year-old Ticonderoga, New York native embraced Mother Nature and hiked to the summit of his home state’s Black Mountain, tackled the slopes in Colorado and pond-skated locally with friends.
Mark says his love of the great outdoors and his quest to climb new personal heights has never been overshadowed by ulcerative colitis.
“I won’t let the disease define me,” says Donohue, a college freshman at Binghamton University in New York. “I take it in stride, stay positive and don’t let ulcerative colitis dictate th...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 22, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Maureen McCarthy Tags: Diseases & conditions Our patients’ stories Source Type: news
Nearly a Decade Lag Time Between Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Colorectal Cancer Mortality Benefit (FREE)
By Kelly Young
Edited by William E. Chavey, MD, MS
It takes nearly a decade following flexible sigmoidoscopy to prevent one colorectal cancer death for every 1000 people screened, suggests a BMJ meta-analysis.Researchers analyzed the results of four … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - April 17, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Italian men shun flexible sigmoidoscopy for CTC
VIENNA - Whether it's fear of endoscopes or love of high technology, Italian (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 5, 2015 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
Men Favor CTC Over Flexible Sigmoidoscopy for CRC ScreeningMen Favor CTC Over Flexible Sigmoidoscopy for CRC Screening
For colorectal cancer screening, CT colonography (CTC) is more appealing than flexible sigmoidoscopy to men, but women do not appear to favor one strategy over the other. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - March 4, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
What You Should Know Before You Schedule Your Next Doctor Appointment
Before we were able to Google our every itch and twinge and ache, we had very different relationships with our doctors.
“In the early years of my career, information was something the doctor had and the patient didn’t,” Dr. Michael L. LeFevre, a professor and physician at the University of Missouri, tells The Huffington Post. Today, he says, patients bring their information to him for his input. “They want my opinion about how good the information is and what it means and how to interpret it for them in their lives.”
Of course, the Internet is rife with misinformation, and sometimes a well-meaning patient will ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nurse navigators may aid colon cancer screening follow-up
(Group Health Research Institute) Group Health patients with a positive screening test for colon cancer (a stool test or sigmoidoscopy) tended to be more likely to get the recommended follow-up test, a diagnostic colonoscopy, if nurse navigators contacted them than if they got usual care, according to Beverly B. Green, MD, MPH, a Group Health physician and a Group Health Research Institute associate investigator. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 7, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Sigmoidoscopy
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Source: eMedicineHealth.com - September 12, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)
(MedPage Today) -- This week?s topics include salt and hypertension, chikungunya in the U.S., flexible sigmoidoscopy and colorectal cancer, and body mass index and cancer. (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 16, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Sigmoidoscopy Does Cut Risk of Dying From Colon Cancer: Study
Title: Sigmoidoscopy Does Cut Risk of Dying From Colon Cancer: StudyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 8/12/2014 4:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 8/13/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Cancer General)
Source: MedicineNet Cancer General - August 13, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Cuts Colorectal Cancer Incidence, Mortality (FREE)
By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
One-time screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy reduces colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, a JAMA study finds.Some 100,000 adults aged 50 to 64 in Norway were randomized … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - August 13, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Sigmoidoscopy Does Cut Risk of Dying From Colon Cancer: Study
sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, colon cancer (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - August 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
