trend.” Dr. Mohler, who has been a member of the NCCN Guidelines Panels for Prostate Cancer and Prostate Cancer Early Detection since 2005 and 2003, respectively, notes that life expectancy estimation for men with prostate cancer has had a
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Colorectal Cancer Screening, Version 1.2015
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Thinking Outside the Box About Screening for Ovarian Cancer: The Nose Knows!
Robert J. Morgan
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Management of Advanced Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma
Ranjana Advani, Weiyun Z. Ai, and Sandra J. Horning
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Costs and Barriers of Cancer Screening After Positive Genetic Testing: Are Actionable Mutations Becoming “Unactionable”?
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GORDHANDAS, MD Sushmita Gordhandas, MD, is a second-year gynecologic oncology fellow with the Gynecology Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Gordhandas’ primary research interests include early detection, risk reduction, and improving the
The Role of MRI in Breast Cancer Screening
Constance D. Lehman and Robert A. Smith
balance of benefits and harms, other methods for early detection of breast cancer in high-risk women were actively pursued. Several single and multicenter studies of screening MRI in high-risk women detected invasive breast cancers that were neither
Point: TheValue of Predicting Life Expectancy in Men with Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
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Counterpoint: Prostate Cancer Life Expectancy Can Not Be Accurately Predicted From Currently Available Tools
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cancer? Urology 1998 ; 5 : 197 – 202 . 6. Howard DH . Life expectancy and the value of early detection . J Health Econ 2005 ; 24 : 891 – 906 . 7. Yan Y Carvalhal GF Catalona WJ . Primary treatment choices for men with
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Wealth, Health Expenditure, and Cancer: A National Perspective
Jad Chahoud, Adele Semaan, and Alyssa Rieber
existence of widely available screening and early detection methods. 31 – 34 Methods Data We extracted the most recently available public data at the time (December 2014) to measure the 3 sets of indicators: wealth, health expenditure, and cancer