Medicare officials hope showing medical imaging stats will reduce use
Medicare officials hope showing medical imaging stats will reduce use
What a difference 70 miles can make. An older woman is five times more likely to get called back for a follow-up mammogram at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine than at Southeast Georgia Health System’s St. Marys Hospital. Which is ordering the right amount of medical imaging for breast cancer? Perhaps neither. Doctors order a second test in about 17 percent of cases at Flagler and about 3 …
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Categories: Breast Cancer Radiation Tags: hope, imaging, Medical, medicare, Officials, Reduce, showing, STATS
VITAL STATS: Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month promotes the importance of colon cancer screenings
VITAL STATS: Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month promotes the importance of colon cancer screenings
Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The month of March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which is meant to promote the importance of colon cancer screenings.
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Categories: High Risk Breast Cancer Tags: Awareness, cancer, colon, Colorectal, Importance, month, promotes, screenings, STATS, VITAL