US Cancer Screening
Maria Dalamagka In the last decade, the general US population did not meet Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) goals for cancer screening except for colorectal cancer, according to results from a US survey published online December 27 in Frontiers in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention . However, cancer survivors met goals for all cancer types except cervical cancer. "There is a great need for increased cancer prevention efforts in the U.S., especially for screening as it is considered one of the most important preventive behaviors and helps decrease the burden of this disease on society in terms of quality of life, the number of lives lost and insurance costs," lead author Tainya C. Clarke, MPH, a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Florida, said in a news release. "But despite this, our research has shown that adherence rates for cancer screenings have generally declined w...