How Breast Cancer Screening Could Be Improved for Nearly Half of US Women

This National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S., new research shows how more patients could benefit from early detection.

Mom, 37, diagnosed with cancer after push for early screening: "I was just stunned"

Michaela Del Barrio was worried about her family's history with breast cancer, but she didn't expect an early assessment to find anything.

Breast cancer detection: Screening vs. diagnostic mammograms explained

Women should be aware of the two types of mammograms – screening and diagnostic – and when to advocate for additional tools to detect breast cancer at its earliest stage.

Breakthrough Blood Test Detects Head and Neck Cancer up to 10 Years Before Symptoms

Mass General Brigham’s HPV-DeepSeek test enables much earlier cancer detection through a blood sample, creating a new opportunity for screening HPV-related head and neck cancers. Human papillomavirus ...
Healio

Q&A: The case for early mental, behavioral health screening

The AAP recommends that pediatric providers screen children beginning at age 6 months to identify early signs of mental, emotional and behavioral conditions that may develop as they get older.In a new ...
American Cancer Society

Screening Mammograms Increase After Declines During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Females between 40 and 44 may start getting a mammorgram every year. Females 55 and older may get a mammogram every other year, or they can continue getting one every year. Starting at age 40 and ...
RMD Open

Systemic lupus erythematosus damage risk index (SLE-DRI): a simple machine learning-based tool for identifying patients at risk for early organ damage

Objective Organ damage is a key determinant of poor prognosis and increased mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, no validated clinical tools for predicting damage accumulation ...