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2. Preventative Cancer Screenings: Top 5 to Get in 2024 - Healthline

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   Lung cancer screening. The USPSTF recommends that people who match the below criteria get lung cancer screening once a year: A low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scan is the only recommended ...

3. Preventive Care for Men at Every Age - Healthline

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   High blood pressure screening: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends adults ages 18 to 39 years get screened for high blood pressure every 3 to 5 years. Dental checkup: Get a ...

4. Catching cancer early lowers risk of mortality, but ... - AOL

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   Many Americans follow these guidelines, but screening potential is "unfulfilled due to lower than optimal uptake and quality issues," according to the ACS' 2023-2024 Cancer Prevention & Early ...

5. Preventive Health: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

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   Preventive care for adults involves screening for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, as well as immunizations against serious illnesses like the flu and COVID-19. It also involves ...

6. Screening Tests for People Over 50: What You Need - WebMD

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   From ages 50 and up, it recommends screening every other year and then no more after age 75. Cervical cancer. Pap tests have long been the gold standard for testing. You can either have a PAP ...

7. Free Breast Cancer Screening: Affordable Care Act - WebMD

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   That's why the Affordable Care Act makes breast cancer screening and counseling free. All health plans * must cover these benefits at no cost to you. More than 40,000 women die from breast cancer ...

8. Top 10 Preventive Care Tips at Ages 50+ - WebMD

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   10. Immunizations: As you age, you need a few extra vaccines to help you stay healthy, including: Flu shot: Folks 6 months of age and older should get one every year. Pneumonia vaccine: A series ...

9. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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   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] In 2019, cancer was the second leading cause ...