Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Cancer Screening"
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If You Don’t Find It Often, You Often Don’t Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Mammography is an important tool in the early detection of breast cancer. However, the perceptual task is difficult and a significant proportion of cancers are missed. Visual search experiments show that miss (false negative) ... -
Impact of the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force Guidelines on Screening Mammography Rates on Women in Their 40s
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: The 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force breast cancer screening update recommended against routine screening mammography for women aged 40–49; confusion and release of conflicting guidelines followed. We ... -
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Use of Colonoscopy in an Insured Population – A Retrospective Cohort Study
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: Low-socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with a higher colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality. Screening with colonoscopy, the most commonly used test in the US, has been shown to reduce the risk ... -
Non-Communicable Disease Preventive Screening by HIV Care Model
(Public Library of Science, 2017)Importance The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic has evolved, with an increasing non-communicable disease (NCD) burden emerging and need for long-term management, yet there are limited data to help delineate the ... -
Use of a Single Hybrid Imaging Agent for Integration of Target Validation with In Vivo and Ex Vivo Imaging of Mouse Tumor Lesions Resembling Human DCIS
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Screening of biomarker expression levels in tumor biopsy samples not only provides an assessment of prognostic and predictive factors, but may also be used for selection of biomarker-specific imaging strategies. To assess ...