Cancer Risk Assessment for the Primary Care Physician

Second Primary Cancer Screening: Role of the Primary Care Physician

Diffusion of breast cancer risk assessment in primary care.

BACKGROUND Physicians who provide primary care to women have the opportunity to identify patients at high risk for breast cancer who are candidates for risk reduction strategies. Our objective was to determine the prevalence and determinants of the adoption of breast cancer risk assessment by primary care physicians. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative random sampl...

Genetic assessment of breast cancer risk in primary care practice.

Family history is increasingly important in primary care as a means to detect candidates for genetic testing or tailored prevention programs. We evaluated primary care physicians' skills in assessing family history for breast cancer risk, using unannounced standardized patient (SP) visits to 86 general internists and family medicine practitioners in King County, WA. Transcripts of clinical enco...

The evolving primary care physician.

n engl j med 366;20 nejm.org may 17, 2012 1849 more widely available and reducing the national price tag, it’s hard to say how primary care physicians will fit into the delivery models that emerge. Will they be increasingly replaced by nurse practitioners and physician assistants? Will they become partners or leaders on multidisciplinary teams, spending more time supervising others and less int...

The role of the primary care physician.

Increased emphasis on community-based care of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS is recommended by the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Patients prefer to be treated within their community, and primary care reduces the demand on scarce, costly, and already overloaded hospital facilities. Thus, there is an increasingly large role for primary care physicians to play in t...