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ThereseBeversMD (Physician - Family Medicine (Verified) ) - 06 / 27 / 2012

Up to two-thirds of all cancers may be prevented by avoiding tobacco and adopting healthy lifestyle habits. Regular screening exams can help detect many cancers in the earliest stages, when they can be treated successfully. MD Anderson was among the first comprehensive cancer centers to develop a clinical program emphasizing cancer prevention.

The Cancer Prevention Center offers a comprehensive cancer prevention program that includes cancer risk assessment, screening exams based on cancer risk, age and gender as well as personalized risk reduction strategies. It also provides the infrastructure and support for clinical and translational cancer prevention research. Services that are offered include:

Site-Specific Cancer Screening
Cancer risk assessment, counseling and screening for the most common types of cancer in adults without symptoms:

· Breast cancer: clinical breast exam and screening mammogram

· Gynecologic cancer: Pap and HPV testing

· Prostate cancer: digital rectal exam and prostate specific antigen blood test

· Skin cancer: skin exam

· Colorectal cancer: convention or virtual colonoscopy

· Lung cancer screening: low-dose CT scan

Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction

· Genetic Testing and Risk Counseling: for individuals at increased cancer risk due to a family history of disease; services include counseling, testing and risk management.

· Chemoprevention: drug therapy to reduce cancer risk in high-risk patients; research studies are underway for patients at risk for oral, prostate, cervical, lung, colorectal and breast cancers.

· Nutrition Counseling: a dietary evaluation with personalized counseling for cancer risk reduction

· Tobacco cessation services for current smokers desiring to quit or recent quitters desiring assistance with relapse prevention.

Diagnostic Evaluation Services

· Undiagnosed Breast Clinic: comprehensive clinical and diagnostic evaluation of breast abnormalities, including a lump, other breast changes and abnormal mammograms

· Undiagnosed Dermatology Clinic: diagnostic evaluation of skin abnormalities, including a change in a mole or freckle or other skin changes

· Undiagnosed Gynecology: diagnostic evaluation of abnormal Pap smear or abnormal uterine bleeding

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