Preventive Medicine Flashcards
breast cancer screening test that lower mortality the MOST
mammogram
breast self-examination
has NO proven benefit
breast cancer screening
- start at age 50
- every 1-2 years
cervical cancer screening
- start at age 21
- regardless of sexual activity
- every 3 years
- until age 65
if Pap smear shows ASCUS
HPV testing
if ASCUS is HPV positive
COLPoscopy
colon cancer screening
- start at age 50
- every 10 years
colon cancer screening if close family member had colon cancer
- start at age 40, or 10 years earlier than when family member was diagnosed, whichever comes first
hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome (HNPCC) definition
- 3 family members
- 2 generations
- 1 premature (colon cancer before age 50)
hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome (HNPCC) colon cancer screening
- start at age 25
- every 1-2 years
prostate cancer screening
NO recommendation to do routine screening
influenza vaccine greatest benefit
- everyone older than 50
- pregnant women
- health care workers
indications for influenza and pneumococcal vaccines
- patient with chronic lung, heart, liver, kidney, and cancer conditions
- HIV positive patients
- patients on steroids
- DM patients
influenza vaccine should be given
annually
pneumococcal vaccine should be given to
all patients greater than 65 yoa