Search Tag: life expectancy
2023 05 Oct
In the United States, various cancer screening guidelines provide recommended starting and stopping ages for regular screenings. However, there's a growing shift towards considering additional factors beyond age in these guidelines, such as estimated life expectancy, overall health status, and past screening history, all of which contribute to making...Read more
2016 22 Jan
Researchers in the U.S. have found that nearly 16 percent of individuals 65 years or older may have received non-recommended screenings for breast and prostate cancers because they had limited life expectancies of less than 10 years. The finding, reported in JAMA Oncology , could help inform measures to curb unnecessary and potentially harmful cancer...Read more