Dr. Schell answers the question: 'How Do Doctors Screen For Breast Cancer?' — -- Question: What are the roles for physical exam, mammography, MRI and breast self-exam in the screening process for ...

A patient presents for an annual cataract check for incipient cataracts. The patient’s history sheet shows that his mother had glaucoma. As part of a dilated comprehensive eye examination, the patient ...

It’s a simple message – get your annual mammogram to detect breast cancer at its earliest stage. But you may be surprised to hear there are two types of exams. Doctors who devote their practice to ...

Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) say there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms for the use of pelvic examinations to detect ...

The current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of performing screening pelvic examinations in asymptomatic, nonpregnant adult women for the early detection and ...

When companies are asked why they do medical screening or medical surveillance the typical answer is, “Because we have to.” Often, this is the correct answer, as OSHA and other regulatory agencies ...

Extensive mammographic density is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and makes the detection of cancer by mammography difficult, but the influence of density on risk according to ...