Background: Breast cancer screening guidelines have long been a subject of debate and scrutiny, with the US Preventative Task Force (USPSTF) recently releasing the draft recommendation in May 2023 to lower the starting age for breast cancer
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EPR24-104: Re-Evaluating Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations: An Analysis of Breast Cancer Incidence by Age Groups
Jerry Kenmoe, Calvin Ghimire, Harneet Ghumman, Jores Kenmoe, Tejaswi Vinjam, and Arvind Kunadi
EPR23-080: Oral Cancer Screening Among the Rural Indians—A Community Based Prospective Study
Tarun Chowdary Gogineni
, occupation, parity and marital status with CC screening; P >0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results: This is ongoing research, so far 1024 members were screened. All the participants were having lesions; Soft tissue thickening (63
Distress Screening and the Integration of Psychosocial Care Into Routine Oncologic Care
Jimmie C. Holland
was conducted more than 10 years ago, showed the need to identify high-risk patients through psychosocial screening to provide early intervention. 1 In 1997, NCCN took a proactive step, appointing a multidisciplinary panel from each member
BPI22-025: The Timing of Screening Breast MRI and Mammography for Women With Genetic Predisposition for Cancer
Xia Wang, Maxine D. Chang, Marie Catherine Lee, and Bethany L. Niell
When used for screening, the cancer detected by breast MRI tends to be at an earlier stage than by mammography (MA). Many high-risk surveillance clinics adopt a schedule of annual MA and annual MRI, alternating every 6 months, assuming an interval
EPR23-076: Demographic Changes of Expanded 2021 Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines in a Large National Database
Annie L Zhang, Jaime Abraham Perez, and Melinda Hsu
Background: In March 2021, the US Preventative Services Taskforce expanded lung cancer screening eligibility to lower the minimum age from 55 to 50 years and minimum smoking history from 30 to 20 pack-years. The update aimed to increase the
BIO22-029: Identification of Patients Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening by Natural Language Processing
John C. Ruckdeschel, Sriram Parasarathy, and Chiny Driscoll
diagnostic evaluation than a screening procedure. Using the structured data from the EHR we were unable to identify quantitative smoking history in any patients. Natural Language Processing (NLP) rapidly identifies a cohort of patients eligible for LDCT and
QIM20-123: Utilization of a Distress Screening Tool in an Inpatient Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Unit
Ivana Espinosa, Christina Pozo- Kaderman, Maritza Alencar, Jessica MacIntyre, Lisa Merheb, Elise James, Abby-Gail Solomon, Michelle Rodriguez Diaz, Sophie Torrents, and Maria Rueda- Lara
evaluate the current distress screening process at our HSCT inpatient unit. Methods: At Sylvester Cancer Comprehensive Center, current Psychological Distress Screening Guidelines (PDSG) require social workers to administer a distress screening form within
HSR21-075: CancerSupportSource®-Caregiver: Psychometric Properties of 2-Item Depression and Anxiety Risk Screening Measures for Informal Cancer Caregivers
Alexandra K. Zaleta, Melissa F. Miller, Erica E. Fortune, Kelly A. Clark, and Elissa C. Kranzler
Background: Caring for loved ones with cancer can be burdensome and emotionally demanding; screening for caregiver depression and anxiety can mitigate the risks of under-identifying and undertreating these conditions. CancerSupportSource
QIM21-086: Implementation of Depression Screening With the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) at a Radiation Oncology Department
Henry Eromosele Inegbenosun and Mary Tlasek-Wolfson
contribute to poor prognosis and mortality. Inadequate depression screening and referral practices were observed and verbalized as a concern by internal stakeholders at a Radiation Oncology Department (ROD). Retrospective chart audits revealed depression
Incident Cancer Detection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Antoine Eskander, Qing Li, Jiayue Yu, Julie Hallet, Natalie G. Coburn, Anna Dare, Kelvin K.W. Chan, Simron Singh, Ambica Parmar, Craig C. Earle, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, Timothy P. Hanna, Antonio Finelli, Alexander V. Louie, Nicole Look Hong, Jonathan C. Irish, Ian J. Witterick, Alyson Mahar, Christopher W. Noel, David R. Urbach, Daniel I. McIsaac, Danny Enepekides, and Rinku Sutradhar
Background Cancer survival rates have improved over the past decade, in part because of earlier detection of disease. 1 , 2 However, screening programs with accessible in-person care have been impacted by the emergency health measures put in