Cancer screening test for females
- how cancer screening is done
- how cervical cancer screening is done
- how breast cancer screening is done
- how colorectal cancer screening is done
Disadvantages of cancer screening
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Cancer Screening Tests
Overview
CDC supports screening for breast, cervical, colorectal (colon), and lung cancers as recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Screening means checking your body for cancer before you have symptoms.
Getting screening tests regularly may find breast, cervical, colorectal (colon), and lung cancers early, when treatment is likely to work best.
Cancer Doesn't Wait
In this video, Dr. Lisa Richardson, Dr. Robert W.
Carlson, and Dr. Laura Makaroff talk about the importance of routine cancer screenings.
Breast cancer
For many women, mammograms are the best way to find breast cancer early, when it is easier to treat.
Mammograms can find cancer before it is big enough to feel or cause symptoms.
Learn more about screening for breast cancer.
Cervical cancer
The HPV test and the Pap test can help prevent cervical cancer or find it early.
- The HPV test looks for the virus (human papillomavirus) that can cause cell changes on the cervix.
- The Pap test (or Pap smear) looks for precancers, cell changes on the cervix that migh
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