Present address: G.Sitta Sittampalam is at the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, Institute for Advancing Medical Innovations, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA,
In this issue of JAMA, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) presents a Recommendation Statement1 and an accompanying Evidence Review2 on screening for unhealthy drug use. “Unhealthy drug use” refers to drugs that are illegal or medications not used for medical purposes, including ...
Of course, screening is widespread in human medicine, though it is increasingly a subject of controversy and debate.3Large-scale programs in human medicine to promote testing for specific diseases have been used widely, such as prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer and mammogr...
Jennifer McNeely MD, MS, Leah Hamilton PhD, in Medical Clinics of North America, 2022 Drug Screening Tools Drug screening can also be accomplished with a single-item screening question (SISQ-Drug), which can be self-administered and asks about illicit and nonmedical use of prescription drugs....
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Evidence from randomised controlled trials and results from service screening in some countries show a benefit of screening women below age 50 with a screening interval of up to two years. The benefit of such screening in terms of mortality reduction will be lower than that in older women, ...
in English using a combination of the following terms: microRNA, miRNA, cancer, prostate cancer, miRNA profiling, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy response, and predictive marker. The authors summarized the existing literature regarding the profiling of miRNA in PCa detection, prognosis, and response to...
13 Although China has developed a series of cancer screening guidelines,12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 there remains a steep road ahead in terms of transitioning from evidence to implementation. Here, we highlight the key milestones and current status of cancer screening in China, describe ...