Early Detection of Cancer
"Early Detection of Cancer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Methods to identify and characterize cancer in the early stages of disease and predict tumor behavior.
| Descriptor ID |
D055088
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.390.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Cancer Screening Tests- Cancer Screening Tests
- Cancer Screening Test
- Screening Test, Cancer
- Screening Tests, Cancer
- Test, Cancer Screening
- Tests, Cancer Screening
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Early Detection of Cancer" by people in Profiles.
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Culture, community, and cancer: understandings of breast cancer from a non-lived experience among women living in Soweto. BMC Womens Health. 2024 Nov 06; 24(1):594.
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Mammogram and Pap Smear Uptake Among Women in the HIV Outpatient Study USA, 2010-2021. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2024 04; 38(4):151-154.
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No woman left behind: achieving cervical cancer elimination among women living with HIV. Lancet HIV. 2023 06; 10(6):e412-e420.
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A cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitudes, barriers and practices of cervical cancer screening among nurses in selected hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. BMC Womens Health. 2023 03 09; 23(1):94.
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Prevention of Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource African Settings. Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2022 Dec; 49(4):771-781.
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Cervical cancer prevention in countries with the highest HIV prevalence: a review of policies. BMC Public Health. 2022 08 10; 22(1):1530.
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Assessing national cervical cancer screening guidelines: Results from an HIV testing clinic also screening for cervical cancer and HPV in Soweto, South Africa. PLoS One. 2021; 16(7):e0255124.
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Facility standards and the quality of public sector primary care: Evidence from South Africa's "Ideal Clinics" program. Health Econ. 2021 07; 30(7):1543-1558.
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Achieving maternal viral load suppression for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa. AIDS. 2021 02 02; 35(2):307-316.
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The 'ins and outs' of colonoscopy at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, South Africa: A practice audit of the outpatient endoscopy unit. S Afr Med J. 2020 Nov 27; 110(12):1186-1190.