Cancer Screening Test
Cancer Screening is used to detect the cancer in the early stage before symptoms appears and provide medical treatment. Screening for Cancer can leads to early detection and Cancer prevention. Early diagnosis of Cancer leads to higher rate of effective treatment and extended life and it may also leads to falsely appear to increase the time to death through lead time bias. The Screening involves blood tests, urine test, radiological imaging and other tests. The test taken for cancer should be effective, safe, accurate, well-tolerated with acceptably low rates of false positive and false negative results.
- Genomic tumor assessment & tumor molecular profiling
- Colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and high-sensitivity fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs)
- Mammography
- Pap test and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing
- Alpha-fetoprotein blood test
- Breast MRI
- CA-125 test
- Clinical breast exams and regular breast self-exams
- PSA test
- Skin exams
- Transvaginal ultrasound
- Advanced genomic testing