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In this cohort analysis, which included male patients examined at 128 US Veterans Health Administration facilities between 2005 (n = 4,678,412) and 2019 (n = 5,371,701), facilities with greater rates of prostate-specific antigen screening showed lower rates of eventual metastatic prostate cancer incidence.

A Narrative Review Liquid biopsy is increasingly being used clinically in advanced lung cancer, according to this review, and ongoing research is identifying applications of circulating tumor DNA-based testing that complement tissue analysis across a wide range of clinical settings. At many stages of the patient’s oncologic journey, circulating tumor DNA technologies are demonstrating potential benefits for patients, health care practitioners, health care systems, and researchers.

Offering 0.25 credits, this 30-minute CME program discusses the new cervical cancer screening guidelines recently published by both the American Society for Colonoscopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) and the American Cancer Society (ACS).

This case of a 51-year-old man with a 1-month history of multiple eruptive seborrheic keratoses on his back and a single painless nodule on his chest exemplifies the importance of performing a thorough evaluation in patients presenting with sudden-onset eruptive seborrheic keratoses.

We already shared the story about the financial advantage of AI being used in colonoscopies — here is a related story featuring key takeaways regarding the importance of screening in younger people, new techniques such as linked color imaging, and the non-invasive modality MRI colonography.

This is a 1.75-hour credit expert round-table featuring members of UPMC faculty. The group dialogue together on the state-of the art in pancreatic cancer and their experience in biliary stenting including advantages of metal versus plastic stenting, and their experience in recent advances in molecular testing of pancreatic cysts, identifying those patients that will benefit from targeted surveillance of pancreatic cancer, and methods of performing PDAC surveillance and their outcomes. They also discuss prevention and management of post-op complications, and pain control in this population.