OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the status of lung cancer screening. DATA SOURCES Published articles, book chapters, websites, and research studies. CONCLUSION Screening with chest x-ray and sputum cytology has not been shown to be effective in reducing lung cancer mortality. Although screening with helical CT is currently under investigation in randomized clinical trials, observationa...

Identifiable comorbid conditions and organ-specific physiologic changes due to aging can limit a patient's ability to tolerate cancer therapy. In addition, the aging process can be associated with decreased physiologic reserve affecting multiple systems. This can be manifested as frailty and can interfere with the functional status of the patient, even in the absence of specific comorbidities. ...

BACKGROUND We investigated the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and cancer screening in a Korean population aged 40 years or older. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 12,303 participants (5,284 men and 7,019 women) who participated in the 2010-2012 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Self-reported questionnaires were used to assess participant's SES...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate social and behavioral factors associated with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in men in California, United States, who were over 40 years of age and had ever heard about PSA screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS This survey was administered as a random-digit-dialing telephone survey to produce reliable estimates of medium-sized countie...

background colorectal cancer (crc) is the third most common cancer in iran and its early detection is necessary. this study is based on perception of people in the east of iran toward crc screening.   methods in a cross-sectional study, 1060 randomly selected individuals who referred to razavi hospital of mashhad, iran, between september the 1st, 2012 and february the 28th, 2013 as patients or ...