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The team focused on over 70 common cancer-related genes and identified more than 3,400 unique mutations.

New Research Finds up to 5 percent of Americans Carry Genetic Mutations Associated with Cancer Risk

Cleveland Clinic

Results highlight the importance of routine cancer screenings, suggest genetic testing should go beyond high-risk groups

Mammograms can detect breast cancer early, often before a lump can be felt, which improves the chances of successful treatment and survival.

Missing First Screening Appointment Linked to Higher Risk of Breast Cancer Death

BMJ-British Medical Journal

Targeted measures needed to boost attendance among initial non-attenders and reduce mortality risk, say researchers

Expanding Access and Enabling Risk-Based Cervical Cancer Screening

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)

How self-collection* and extended genotyping may help improve screening rates and support risk stratification

Typically, clinicians conduct HPV testing in a doctor’s office using the same cells they collect during a Pap smear.

New Research Could Make Testing for Gynecologic Cancers More Equitable and Accurate

Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine

ADLM 2025 studies highlight promising options for cervical and endometrial cancer testing

CanScan is a noninvasive blood test powered by AI-driven whole-genome sequencing.

Blood-Based Multi-Cancer Detection Test Shows High Accuracy in Nature Medicine Study

Geneseeq

Geneseeq’s CanScan® test demonstrated 93 percent early-stage detection and a 98 percent specificity rate in a 3,700-person cohort

With these rising rates, early-onset colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer-related death for men under 50 and the second-leading cause for women under 50 in the United States.

What’s Behind the Enormous Increase in Early-Onset Gastrointestinal Cancers?

Oxford University Press

The incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer is increasing globally, particularly in high-income countries

Gastric cancer ranks as the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, driven mainly by chronic infection with H. pylori, a cause that can be prevented through effective treatment.

Bacteria May Be Responsible for 11 Million+ Projected Gastric Cancer Cases

Springer Nature

Researchers call for greater investment in the prevention of gastric cancer, particularly through population-wide H. pylori screen-and-treat programs

Images of positive CT colonography (CTC) screening examination result in an asymptomatic 67-year-old man. Three-dimensional colon map from CTC (left image) shows the location of two sigmoid polyps that were detected (red dots). Three-dimensional endoluminal and confirmatory two-dimensional transverse CTC images show a large 1.6-cm pedunculated polyp on top row (arrow) and a 9-mm pedunculated polyp in the distal sigmoid on the bottom row (arrow). Both polyps were confirmed and resected at optical colonoscopy performed the same day (right images), avoiding the need for a second bowel preparation. The larger polyp proved to be a tubulovillous adenoma (large advanced adenoma), whereas the smaller polyp was a nonadvanced tubular adenoma. Compare this level of information of a positive CTC screening test result with a positive multitarget stool DNA test result, for which no specific information is provided.

CT Colonography Beats Stool DNA Testing for Colon Cancer Screening

Radiological Society of North America

While both screening methods were clinically effective compared to no screening, one of them led to a better reduction of colorectal cancer incidence

Illustration of people standing together in the shape of a cancer ribbon with some people standing outside of the formation to represent people who are not getting screened for lung cancer.

Rates of Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening Nearly Four-Fold Higher than Lung Cancer Screening, Study Finds

Mass General Brigham

A new study finds that many eligible patients who receive other preventive screenings are not getting screened for lung cancer

Illustration of colorectal tumor cancer cells on a representative drawing of major organs inside the human body against a black background.

In Five Cancer Types, Prevention and Screening Have Been Major Contributors to Saving Lives

National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute

NIH modeling study looked at the individual and combined impacts of cancer prevention, screening, and treatment

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