American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer, 2004

Each January, the American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes a summary of its recommendations for early cancer detection, including updates, emerging issues that are relevant to screening for cancer, or both. In the spring of 2003, the ACS announced updated guidelines for breast cancer screening, and s...

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Published in:CA: a cancer journal for clinicians 2004-01, Vol.54 (1), p.41-52
Main Authors: Smith, Robert A, Cokkinides, Vilma, Eyre, Harmon J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancer
Guidelines
Health Promotion - standards
Health Promotion - trends
Humans
Mass Screening - standards
Mass Screening - trends
Medical diagnosis
Neoplasms - diagnosis
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Organizations
Risk Factors
Time Factors
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Each January, the American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes a summary of its recommendations for early cancer detection, including updates, emerging issues that are relevant to screening for cancer, or both. In the spring of 2003, the ACS announced updated guidelines for breast cancer screening, and several other organizations released updated guidelines that we compare with recent ACS updates. Finally, the most recent data pertaining to participation rates in cancer screening are presented by age and sex from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, as are U.S. maps profiling states based on the proportion of the age‐eligible population not recently screened for breast cancer or colorectal cancer.
ISSN:0007-9235
1542-4863
DOI:10.3322/canjclin.54.1.41