Definitions for cancer screening
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1. Cancer screening

   Cancer screening aims to detect cancer before symptoms appear. This may involve blood tests, urine tests, DNA tests other tests, or medical imaging. The benefits of screening in terms of cancer prevention, early detection and subsequent treatment must be weighed against any harms. Universal screening, also known as mass screening or population screening, involves screening everyone, usually within a specific age group. Selective screening identifies people who are known to be at higher risk of developing cancer, such as people with a family history of cancer.Screening can lead to false positive results and subsequent invasive procedures. Screening can also lead to false negative results, where an existing cancer is missed. Controversy arises when it is not clear if the benefits of screening outweigh the risks of the screening procedure itself, and any follow-up diagnostic tests and treatments.Screening tests must be effective, safe, well-tolerated with acceptably low rates of false positive and false negative results. If signs of cancer are detected, more definitive and invasive follow-up tests are performed to reach a diagnosis. Screening for cancer can lead to cancer prevention and earlier diagnosis. Early diagnosis may lead to higher rates of successful treatment and extended life. However, it may also falsely appear to increase the time to death through lead time bias or length time bias.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cancer screening in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cancer screening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of cancer screening in a Sentence

1. Otis Brawley:

   We still have huge debates whether there's a benefit to prostate cancer screening. There, the benefit might be to a subset of men and not to all men -- that's an unknown, that's a question mark.

2. Stefan Barta:

   Outcomes for persons living with HIV and cancer treated appropriately can be similar to outcomes in non-HIV infected patients, appropriate cancer screening of persons living with HIV, health education and lifestyle modifications such as smoking cessation should move to the forefront.

3. Chau Trinh-Shevrin:

   In some respects, it is premature to note that ACA expansion reduced the cancer disparities gap with treatment time as the primary outcome, the literature on cancer disparities indicate a large range of social determinants of health that influence access and utilization of cancer screening, care and treatment -- that range from stigma, limited English proficiency, low health literacy, limited social support, or difficulties in navigating the US healthcare system.

4. David Tom Cooke:

   We're not doing cancer screenings, such as mammography for breast cancer, and lung cancer screening, there is concern that we are delaying standard of care treatment for patients with potentially curable cancers.

5. Arif Kamal:

   Conclusions regarding whether advanced cancer rates have increased due to missed screenings are a bit premature to reach. This is because cancer takes years to develop, and the resulting effect of missed cancers cannot be known after only a few years, we remain hopeful that as cancer screening rates have returned to baseline, that the two years of missed screenings will not have a long-lasting effect on cancer incident or mortality.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Screening