The United States Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday created new draft guidelines recommending all women begin screening mammography at age 40, a decade earlier than previous guidelines, and ...

If you’ve been trying to keep up with mammogram recommendations lately, you’re not alone. In April 2026, one of the country’s largest medical organizations updated its guidance, and it doesn’t fully ...

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Colorectal cancer screening can help your doctor find and remove precancerous polyps before they become cancer or find colorectal cancer early when it’s most treatable. Colorectal cancer screening ...

Guidelines suggest colorectal cancer screening for average-risk people beginning at age 45. New colorectal cancer screening recommendations, released today by the American Cancer Society, may help ...

New federal guidelines will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical cancer. According to the new recommendations by the Health Resources and Services Administration, women between the ...

New Delhi: The most powerful weapon against cancer is not always a breakthrough drug; it is often a basic screening test done at the right time. Therefore, for millions of patients worldwide, the ...

The American Cancer Society has endorsed self-collected vaginal samples for cervical cancer screening — a change medical experts say will help expand access and improve detection. The updated ACS ...

When the American Cancer Society recently unveiled changes to its lung cancer screening guidance, the aim was to remove barriers to screening and catch more cancers in high-risk people earlier.

Medicare Part B covers one annual lung cancer screening via a low dose CT scan. But you must qualify based on recently expanded criteria. Your lung cancer screening may be covered by Medicare Part B, ...

Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for the CT chest scans that could have spotted tumors early and extended their lives, new ...