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Tune Up Your Cancer Screens

Submitted by Roxanne RN on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 11:25am.

Screening for cancer has decreased the growth rate of this devastating disease significantly. However, sometimes the results of screening are not positive when they should be, or negative when they shouldn’t be. Is there anything we can do to improve our chances of obtaining accurate results? The leader experts say yes!

Colonoscopies

Death from colon cancer has dropped from 57,000 in 2000 to 53,580 in 2004 according ot the CDC. This decrease is related to the increased screenings for colon cancer.

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Melanoma: Testing

Submitted by Steve Ross on Sun, 07/30/2006 - 10:10am.

The only widely proposed screening procedure for melanomatous skin cancer is visual examination of the skin, including both self examination and clinical examination. If a screening test result for melanoma is abnormal, you may need to have diagnostic tests done to find out if you have cancer.

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