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Many Americans will soon have access to at-home cervical cancer screening tests at no cost
For the first time, many people in the United States who should be screened for cervical cancer will have an alternative to ...
PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a substance naturally produced in prostate tissue. A small amount of PSA regularly sneaks into the bloodstream, and low blood concentration is considered ...
HHS released updated cervical cancer screening guidelines on Jan. 5, allowing for self-administered HPV tests as an ...
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An easy at-home test to replace Pap smears is here—and will soon be fully covered by most insurance
While the Pap was invented in the 1940s and involves inspecting cervical cells for precancerous or cancerous shifts, in the ...
NICE has proposed age-based CA125 thresholds to improve early ovarian cancer detection while reducing unnecessary scans in ...
Bob Lane stresses the importance of open discussions about prostate cancer and early screening to overcome stigma and improve outcomes. Men often avoid discussing prostate cancer due to concerns about ...
With September being Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, I feel compelled to offer a personal experience that hopefully will illustrate how important getting checked can be. Prostate cancer is in my DNA, ...
A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that measures a protein released in the blood by prostate cells. Both normal and cancerous prostate cells release the protein. Most of the time, ...
Researchers are studying tests called liquid biopsies, which can provide vital information about cancer genes using only a blood sample. A blood test to find cancer even before it shows any symptoms ...
Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked for the Cologuard test, and his doctor hadn't mentioned anything about ...
I was at the top of my field. I worked from 8 in the morning until 10 at night. Scheduling a doctor's appointment was never a priority. Until I got cancer. I began experiencing symptoms in 2017, but ...
Up to 5% of Americans may carry genetic variants associated with cancer risk, according to a cross-sectional analysis.The ...
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