Primary Care for Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
There are potentially MANY things to monitor in adult survivors of childhood cancer. Is your patient up-to-date on screening?
There are potentially MANY things to monitor in adult survivors of childhood cancer. Is your patient up-to-date on screening?
Let’s review some updates on forum topics from the past year: lung cancer screening, gonorrhea testing and management, and primary aldosteronism.
Rumara comes to the office at age 32yo for her first physical since age 18yo. She doesn’t think she has received the HPV vaccination. She wants to know about screening options. She also is recently divorced and hoping to become more sexually active.
How many adults get screened for CRC? What are the testing options for screening? How has COVID impacted screening?
How do we assess breast cancer risk? How good of a screening tool are mammograms? How often should we screen? How should we approach shared decision making?
Case: 65yo man with 40 pack year smoking history, who still smokes but has cut back to 1-2 cigarettes per day. Should he be screened for lung cancer?