M. D. Anderson Redefines Screening Guidelines for Breast, Cervical and Colorectal Cancers.

 Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly available to date for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers (also see the MDAC Screening Guides). The new recommendations represent the first wave of an effort by M. D. Anderson to improve the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stage by reconstructing and expanding its screening, risk reduction and diagnostic guidelines across eight disease sites. According to the American Cancer Society

• New cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in 192,370 women and 40,170 will die from breast cancer
• 11,270 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed in women and 4,070 women will die from cervical cancer
• New cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed in 106,100 men and women and 49,920 men and women will die from colorectal cancer