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Cancer Screening

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Screening is a process of testing asymptomatic individuals. In 1968, the World Health Organization proposed a set of criteria to evaluate various screening tests, commonly known as “Wilson’s criteria.” In 2008, with acknowledgement of emerging criteria, the criteria were updated. In this chapter, we consider a variety of screening strategies for the early detection of cancer. There are specific concepts related to screening that will be discussed.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Mita Sanghavi Goel

  2. Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Jenny J. Lin

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Larissa Nekhlyudov

  2. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Mita Sanghavi Goel

  3. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Jenny J. Lin

  4. University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora , Aurora, CO, USA

    Linda Overholser

  5. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Kimberly S. Peairs

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Goel, M.S., Lin, J.J. (2019). Cancer Screening. In: Nekhlyudov, L., Goel, M., Lin, J., Overholser, L., Peairs, K. (eds) Caring for Patients Across the Cancer Care Continuum. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01896-2_3

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