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61. Archived: How Did the USPSTF Arrive at This Recommendation?: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    May 11, 2012 - need to be treated, almost all men with prostate cancer found by the PSA test now get treatment with surgery … found by the PSA test has important, often lasting harms: Erectile dysfunction (impotence) from surgery … radiation therapy, or hormone therapy; Urinary incontinence (leakage of urine) from radiation therapy or surgery … ; Problems with bowel control from radiation therapy; and Death and serious complications from surgery

62. Screening for Skin Cancer: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    treatments available for squamous and basal cell carcinoma, including surgical excision, Mohs micrographic surgery

63. Archived: BRCA-Related Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 24, 2013 - intensive cancer screening; risk-reducing medications (e.g., tamoxifen or raloxifene); and risk-reducing surgery … be preferred candidates for testing; outlining options for screening, risk-reducing medications, or surgery … In high-risk women and those who are BRCA mutation carriers, cohort studies of risk-reducing surgery … In cohort studies of high-risk women and those who are BRCA mutation carriers, risk-reducing surgery … Association of risk-reducing surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers with cancer risk and mortality

64. Ericka Gibson, M.D., M.P.H. | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    January 01, 2025 - privileges at both Northside Atlanta Hospital and Emory Decatur Hospital, where she performs gynecological surgery

65. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: USPSTF Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2012 - Less than 1% of participants had surgery to investigate an abnormal screen- ing result (compared with … approximately 2% in the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial); however, of the 16 women who had surgery, 11 ( … multimethod screening required repeated testing for abnormal results and less than 1% of women had surgery … December 2012 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 157 • Number 12 www.annals.org Among women having surgery

66. Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2017 - Airway Surgery and Bariatric Surgery Six trials each evaluated a different surgical technique, including … radiofrequency surgery of the soft palate,123 temperature- controlled radiofrequency tissue ablation … Airway Surgery and Bariatric Surgery Although 5 of the 6 RCTs included in KQ4 that evaluated surgical … Airway Surgery and Bariatric Surgery Five trials reported harms of surgical treatment: 1 each of single … Randomised trial of nasal surgery for fixed nasal obstruction in obstructive sleep apnoea.

67. Final Research Plan: Vision in Children Ages 6 Months to 5 Years: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 24, 2025 - associated with ocular abnormalities, or pathologic myopia; a children with a history of intraocular surgery … Added studies that focus on children with a history of intraocular surgery, family history of strabismus

68. Draft Research Plan: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 12, 2023 - percentage of men initially choose active surveillance or watchful waiting vs. curative treatments such as surgery … to predict clinically important prostate cancer and prebiopsy multiparametric MRI KQs 5, 6: Surgery

69. Screening for Prostate Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (2012) (pdf file)
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    Management strategies for localized prostate cancer include watchful waiting, active surveillance, surgery

70. Archived: Brief Evidence Update: Oral Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 04, 2004 - Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL); open trial of surgery compared with combined therapy … using surgery and methisoprinol in papillomavirus-related PVL.

71. Screening for Oral Cancer: A Brief Evidence Update (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2004 - Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia (PVL); open trial of surgery compared with combined therapy … using surgery and methisoprinol in papillomavirus-related PVL.

72. JAMA (pdf file)
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    November 18, 2020 - problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery … problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery … smoked for 15 years or has a health problem that limits life expectancy or the ability to have lung surgery … Treatment and Interventions Lung cancer can be treated with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, … Recommendations of Others The American Association for Thoracic Surgery recommends an- nual lung cancer

73. Wrawvp7P8Rdns25Gqldaht (pdf file)
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    Early-stage cervical cancer may be treated w ith surgery (hysterectomy) or chemotherapy.

74. Archived: Breast and Ovarian Cancer: BRCA Genetic Testing, September 2005 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 15, 2005 - Interventions such as prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, or intensive screening have known harms. … However, there is fair evidence that prophylactic surgery for these women significantly decreases breast … Prophylactic surgery is associated with known harms. … Cohort studies of prophylactic surgery have several methodologic limitations that should be considered … Potential for bias in studies on efficacy of prophylactic surgery for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation.

75. Pzrh6M8Vucdvmsabwkaqa2 (pdf file)
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    February 01, 2014 - be preferred candidates for testing; outlining options for screening, risk-reducing medications, or surgery … In high-risk women and those who are BRCA muta- tion carriers, cohort studies of risk-reducing surgery … In cohort studies of high-risk women and those who are BRCA mutation carriers, risk-reducing surgery … Association of risk-reducing surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers with cancer risk and mortality … of pain and discomfort, impact on sexuality, quality of life and feelings of regret two years after surgery

76. Archived: Final Research Plan: Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 22, 2015 - (e.g., local and State public or health policy) Institutional methods (e.g., use of restraints) Surgery … (e.g., cataract extraction, pacemaker placement, podiatry surgery) Fluid or nutrition therapy Management

77. Recommendation: Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 02, 2021 - The Society for Vascular Surgery 23 and joint guidelines from multiple US professional societies 22 … Angiography and Interventions; Society of Interventional Radiology; Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery … ; Society for Vascular Medicine; Society for Vascular Surgery; American Academy of Neurology and Society … 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.

78. Final Research Plan: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 21, 2023 - percentage of men initially choose active surveillance or watchful waiting vs. curative treatments such as surgery … to predict clinically important prostate cancer, and prebiopsy multiparametric MRI KQs 5, 6: Surgery

79. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    Early open surgery for the treatment of smaller AAAs does not reduce AAA-specific or all-cause mortality

80. Recommendation: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    February 13, 2018 - magnitude of harm ranges from moderate to substantial and reflects the risk for unnecessary diagnostic surgery … Study outcomes should include ovarian cancer mortality, quality of life, false-positive rate, surgery … Outcomes of interest included ovarian cancer mortality, quality of life, false-positive rate, surgery … screening for ovarian cancer include false-positive results, which may lead to unnecessary diagnostic surgery … moderate to substantial harms that could result from false-positive screening test results and subsequent surgery