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21. Is Prostate Cancer Screening Right for You? (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2018 - with cancer that never grows, spreads, or harms them, also known as overdiagnosis. 80* Choose Surgery … to Other Organs3** 1** Avoids Death From Prostate Cancer*** 5** Die From Prostate Cancer EvenAfter Surgery … * This includes 65 men who choose surgery or radiation at diagnosis, as well as 15 men who choose … to monitor their cancer initially and later have surgery or radiation when it progresses. ** Estimates

22. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 15, 2009 - , and 1 study reported increased risk for death in patients who do not have cataract surgery. 13 , 14 … versus no surgery. … Corneal ectasia, a known harm of refractive surgery, occurs at a median rate of 0.2%. 1 Cataract surgery … A systematic review of the safety and efficacy of elective photorefractive surgery for the correction … Impact of cataract surgery on motor vehicle crash involvement by older adults.

23. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2009
    July 15, 2009 - , and 1 study reported increased risk for death in patients who do not have cataract surgery. 13 , 14 … versus no surgery. … Corneal ectasia, a known harm of refractive surgery, occurs at a median rate of 0.2%. 1 Cataract surgery … A systematic review of the safety and efficacy of elective photorefractive surgery for the correction … Impact of cataract surgery on motor vehicle crash involvement by older adults.

24. Evidence Summary: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/ovarian-cancer-screening
    February 13, 2018 - Main Outcomes and Measures: Ovarian cancer mortality, false-positive screening results and surgery, … Screening harms included surgery (with major surgical complications) in women found to not have cancer … Without Cancer (%) c Screening Test Complications False-Positive Surgery, No. … d Among women with false-positive results (benign findings) who underwent surgery. … False-positive surgery occurred in 0.2% to 1% of those screened with CA-125.

25. Final Evidence Review: Testicular Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review96/testicular-cancer-screening
    September 15, 2010 - These inconclusive studies addressed testicular microlithiasis, XIST gene testing, and testis-sparing surgery … A study by Carmignani and coworkers 7  compared testis-sparing surgery of testicular tumors with standard … Of the 27 patients with tumors, 12 had orchiectomy and 15 had testis-sparing surgery. … One patient in the conservative surgery group developed a scrotal hematoma. … Although the study was not randomized, the authors concluded that conservative surgery did not seem to

26. Archived: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2016
    March 01, 2016 - Harms of cataract surgery include posterior lens opacification and endophthalmitis. … No randomized trials were identified that evaluated clinical outcomes associated with cataract surgery … vs no surgery. … at a median rate of 0.2%. 1 , 4 Cataract surgery can lead to posterior capsule opacification of the … A Systematic Review of the Safety and Efficacy of Elective Photorefractive Surgery for the Correction

27. Draft Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 18, 2024 - methods), use of risk-reducing medications (aromatase inhibitors and tamoxifen), and risk-reducing surgery … methods), use of risk-reducing medications (aromatase inhibitors and tamoxifen), and risk-reducing surgery … alternative approaches KQs 4, 5: Intensive screening, risk-reducing medications, or risk-reducing surgery … disorders, musculoskeletal symptoms, ophthalmologic disorders, quality of life, and others); risk-reducing surgery

28. Final Research Plan: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    November 30, 2017 - What are the effects of treatment (pharmacotherapy or surgery) on treatment-relevant, intermediate health … screening KQs 2, 3: Repeat screening vs. no rescreening KQ 4: Pharmacotherapy vs. placebo, surgery … disease events, and quality of life KQ 5: Harms (i.e., serious adverse events from pharmacotherapy or surgery … >1,000) KQ 5: Randomized, controlled trials; large cohort studies (sample size >1,000); vascular surgery

29. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: A Brief Evidence Update (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2004 - .11–13 Women with persistently abnormal findings on these tests are referred for diagnostic abdominal surgery … Treatment of diagnosed cancers includes surgery and chemotherapy or other adjuvant therapy for tumors … Those with persistently abnormal scans were referred for surgery. … women that reported data on sensitivity and specificity of tests for women who underwent diagnostic surgery … (assuming 7% of women recalled for abnormal findings and 1.3% false-positive results at diagnostic surgery

30. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2014 - Surgery is generally recommended only if the AAA is large—5.5 centimeters or more—or is growing very … June 2014 Task Force FINAL Recommendation | 1 Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery to … An AAA also can be repaired through endovascular surgery. … This is because the chances of developing an AAA and the risk of dying from surgery to repair an AAA … The risk of dying from surgery to repair an AAA is higher for women than for men.

31. Screening for Pancreatic Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    October 11, 2019 - Treatment and Interventions Surgery (pancreaticoduodenectomy [known as the Whipple procedure] or total … undergoing pancreatic surgery to remove such lesions is unknown. … As noted above, 14 of these cases were confirmed by surgery. … Six studies reported on the harms of surgery (n = 32 persons receiving surgery).14,17,18,20,22,33 One … Surgery. 2018;164(6):1178-1184. doi:10.1016/j.surg.2018.07.014 30.

32. Recommendation: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 10, 2019 - As a result, guidelines from the Society for Vascular Surgery recommend repairing AAAs between 5.0 and … Pooled results of the trials showed a reduction in emergency surgery in the invited-to-screening group … However, there was a reduction in rupture rate with early open surgery compared with surveillance for … for AAA is lower than that related to emergency surgery for aneurysm rupture. … Chaikof EL, Brewster DC, Dalman RL, et al; Society for Vascular Surgery.

33. Archived: Addendum to Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 15, 2012 - Additional data on harms (e.g., unnecessary surgery) associated with screening with a combination of … Approximately one-third of women (1,080 of 3,285) with false-positive results underwent surgery (32.9 … The most frequent complications associated with surgery were infection (40 percent of complications), … Overall, 1.0 percent of women underwent surgery, and 2.9 percent of women who had surgery but not cancer … Surgeries varied significantly by group, with 0.2 percent of women undergoing surgery in the MMS group

34. Archived: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 08, 2014 - The Society for Vascular Surgery also released a guideline in 2011 stating that routine screening to … Carotid surgery versus medical therapy in asymptomatic carotid stenosis. … , Society for Vascular Medicine, and Society for Vascular Surgery. … Ricotta JJ, Aburahma A, Ascher E, Eskandari M, Faries P, Lal BK; Society for Vascular Surgery. … Updated Society for Vascular Surgery guidelines for management of extracranial carotid disease.

35. Screening for Lung Cancer (pdf file)
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    August 03, 2020 - develops a health problem that limits how long they might live or their ability or willingness to have surgery … problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery … person will not live long enough to benefit from screening and treatment of lung cancer (such as surgery … curative lung surgery Removal of part or all of

36. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 15, 2009 - Refractive Surgery. … quality of life. 33-35 Cataract Surgery. … No randomized trial evaluated visual outcomes associated with cataract surgery versus no surgery. … National study of cataract surgery outcomes. … The impact of cataract surgery on depression among older adults.

37. Archived: Final Evidence Summary: Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-summary50/impaired-visual-acuity-in-older-adults-screening-2009
    July 15, 2009 - Refractive Surgery. … quality of life. 33-35 Cataract Surgery. … No randomized trial evaluated visual outcomes associated with cataract surgery versus no surgery. … National study of cataract surgery outcomes. … The impact of cataract surgery on depression among older adults.

38. Final Research Plan: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    April 11, 2024 - screening methods), use of risk-reducing medications (aromatase inhibitors, tamoxifen), and risk-reducing surgery … screening methods), use of risk-reducing medications (aromatase inhibitors, tamoxifen), and risk-reducing surgery … alternative approaches KQs 4, 5: Intensive screening, risk-reducing medications, or risk-reducing surgery … disorders, musculoskeletal symptoms, ophthalmologic disorders, quality of life, others); risk-reducing surgery

39. Archived: Final Evidence Review: Ovarian Cancer: Screening, May 2004 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-evidence-review79/ovarian-cancer-screening-2004
    May 15, 2004 - -12 Women with persistently abnormal findings on these tests are referred for diagnostic abdominal surgery … Treatment of diagnosed cancers includes surgery and chemotherapy or other adjuvant therapy for tumors … Those with persistently abnormal scans were referred for surgery. … women that reported data on sensitivity and specificity of tests for women who underwent diagnostic surgery … CA 125-based multimodal screening was estimated as 1 percent for initial recall and 15 percent for surgery

40. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2009 - , and 1 study reported increased risk for death in patients who do not have cataract surgery (13, 14) … ver- sus no surgery. … Serious harms, including vision loss, are rare as a result of contact lens use or refractive surgery. … Corneal ectasia, a known harm of refractive surgery, occurs at a median rate of 0.2% (1). … Impact of cataract surgery on motor vehicle crash involvement by older adults.