Screening high-risk women using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus mammography can detect breast cancer at an early stage, according to a study presented at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
South Asians are only half as likely to take up an invitation for bowel cancer screening and 15 per cent less likely to attend breast cancer screening than non-Asians, researchers at the University of Warwick have found.
CT colonography (CTC) has comparable sensitivity to colonoscopy for polyps >5mm, say researchers in Germany.
Most young women treated with chest radiation for a childhood cancer do not undergo appropriate mammography screening, say researchers in the US.
A striking decline in prostate cancer mortality in the US compared with the UK from 1994 to 2004 coincided with a much higher uptake of prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening in the US.
Contrary to the belief that sedation is needed for comfort during colonoscopy procedures, a study had shown that unsedated colonoscopy is well accepted by patients.
