A team of psychologists and mental health specialists affiliated with several institutions in Denmark, working with a colleague from the U.K., has found that reducing screen time for children to just three hours per week ...
A considerable proportion of women aged 39 to 49 years prefer to delay breast cancer screening, especially after a decision aid (DA) intervention, according to a study published online July 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Screening with fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) lowers the risk of dying from colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a study published online July 19 in JAMA Network Open.
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A new self-reporting tool developed by Murdoch University is set to transform the early detection and management of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
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Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with approximately 660,000 new cases and 350,000 deaths worldwide in 2022 alone. Almost all cases are linked to high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. ...
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If you have ever wondered how you manage to keep track of the immense amount of information coming to you each day, you might want to thank the positional tagging system in your mind.
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A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that eliminating the race disparity in colon cancer testing in the United States would dramatically reduce colon cancer, and colon cancer death rates, among ...
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Early detection of lung cancer through low-dose computed tomography screening is one of the most promising strategies to reduce lung cancer mortality among high-risk individuals.
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More educated people who are skilled at finding reliable information through social media don't always see cancer as fatal while those with less schooling and social media awareness hold more fatalistic beliefs about the ...
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Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening aims to identify men who may harbor potentially lethal prostate cancer, and those with high PSA results often require more extensive (and expensive) diagnostic testing to establish ...
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Screening, in general, is the investigation of a great number of something (for instance, people) looking for those with a particular problem or feature. One example is at an airport, where many bags get x-rayed to try to detect any which may contain weapons or explosives. People are also screened going through a metal detector. Even though the procedure aims at a large number of screens, it is always equivalent to sampling in statistics, because the complete population is almost always inaccessible for screening.
Screening has other, more specific meanings:
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