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Organogram of the NSS. The organogram of the service has the Board of the service at the top. The Board supervises the activities of the executive director and two Deputy Executive Directors. One deputy is the Head of Finance and Administration and the other is in charge of the service's operations.
The objective of cancer screening is to detect cancer before symptoms appear, involving various methods such as blood tests, urine tests, DNA tests, and medical imaging. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The purpose of screening is early cancer detection, to make the cancer easier to treat and extending life expectancy. [ 3 ]
Cervical cancer screening is a medical screening test designed to identify risk of cervical cancer. Cervical screening may involve looking for viral DNA, and/or to identify abnormal, potentially precancerous cells within the cervix as well as cells that have progressed to early stages of cervical cancer .
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer.A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. [1]
Blood-based tests are also more convenient than feces-based tests, such as Exact Sciences' Cologuard, for cancer screening. According to the FDA's documents, a study showed Guardant's Shield test ...
The family is advocating for genetic testing and regular screening for stomach cancer. “I’m really passionate about early detection and getting insurance to pay for that testing that’s done ...
The chemotherapy drug 5-FU can be toxic to some people with cancer. A quick, cheap test can show if chemo is safe for a patient, but few doctors order it.
Length time bias in cancer screening. Screening appears to lead to better survival even when actually no one lived any longer. Length time bias (or length bias) is an overestimation of survival duration due to the relative excess of cases detected that are asymptomatically slowly progressing, while fast progressing cases are detected after giving symptoms.