Open AccessAmerican Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer, 2003
Author(s) -
Smith Robert A.,
Cokkinides Vilma,
Eyre Harmon J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.53.1.27
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer screening , cancer , fecal occult blood , breast cancer , behavioral risk factor surveillance system , colorectal cancer , colorectal cancer screening , family medicine , cervical cancer , cancer prevention , disease , breast cancer screening , gynecology , mammography , public health , pathology , colonoscopy
Each January, the American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes a summary of existing recommendations for early cancer detection, including updates, and/or emerging issues that are relevant to screening for cancer. In 2002, the ACS assembled expert groups to update guidelines for cervical cancer screening and breast cancer screening, and to evaluate new technology for colorectal cancer screening. In November 2002, updated guidelines for cervical cancer screening were published in this journal, and breast cancer screening guidelines will be updated in 2003. In this issue, there is a report of a workshop held to review emerging technology for colorectal cancer screening that resulted in a modification of current previous recommendations for fecal occult blood tests, and revised recommendations for the “cancer‐related check‐up” in which clinical encounters provide case‐finding and health‐counseling opportunities. Finally, we provide an update of the most recent data pertaining to participation rates in cancer screening by age, gender, and ethnicity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).