Cancer Screening 2011: Good, but Not Good Enough - EmpowHER.com
If you get all the recommended cancer screenings, how safe are you? Dr. Billy U. Philips
Jr. and colleagues at Texas Tech University performed a unique study to find out.
The purpose of cancer screening tests is to find the malignancy early, while it can
be treated successfully. A major distinction between early and late stage cancer is
the presence of metastases. Philips used data from the Texas Cancer Registry to check
the ratio of metastatic to non-metastatic cancer diagnoses in Texas on a county by
county basis. His team of researchers also analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau
to quantify the degree of socioeconomic wealth or deprivation for each county. Statistical
correlation then provided a measure of the success of improved health care for cancer.
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