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21. Recommendation: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 10, 2019 - evidence is lacking on whether persons with family history experience a different natural history or surgical … 1.76 [95% CI, 1.35-2.30]). 1 , 34 Women also experience higher rates of other harms, such as major surgical … elective repair is that patients with an AAA of 5.5 cm or larger in diameter should be referred for surgical … The AAA size needed for surgical intervention in women may differ. … the number of emergency operations by 2 (95% CI, 2-2). 1 Treatment Four trials evaluated early surgical

22. Archived: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening, December 2007 | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    December 15, 2007 - suffer serious harms (death, stroke, and myocardial infarction) that outweigh the potential benefit surgical … Risk Assessment In a setting of excellent surgical care and low complication rates, screening may benefit … people whose risk for stroke is high enough to justify screening, yet do not also have a high risk for surgical … Because the magnitude of potential surgical harms is such an important consideration in the treatment … infarction up to 3.3%. 9 The rate of nonfatal perioperative myocardial infarction reported for the surgical

23. Archived: Final Research Plan: Skin Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/final-research-plan104/skin-cancer-screening-july-2016
    July 17, 2014 - Finally, key question 6 addresses the harms that are associated with the treatment of skin cancer by surgical … What are the harms of surgical treatment of skin cancer?

24. Primary Care Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    December 10, 2019 - Four trials (n = 3314) of small aneurysm surgical treatment demonstrated no significant difference in … For small aneurysm treatment, registry data (3 studies [n = 14 424]) showed that women had higher surgical … Four trials evaluated the effectiveness of immediate surgical re- pair of small aneurysms (4-5.4 cm) … Overall, there were more surgical interventions in the early surgery groups than in the surveillance … groups undergoing mostly elective surgical procedures (Table 2).

25. Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (pdf file)
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    December 10, 2019 - evidence is lacking on whether persons with family history experience a different natural history or surgical … between 4.0 and 4.9 cm in diameter, and 11% for those with AAAs between 5.0 and 5.9 cm in diameter.1 Surgical … elective repair is that patients with an AAA of 5.5 cm or larger in diameter should be referred for surgical … The AAA size needed for surgical intervention in women may differ. … plex anatomy and smaller blood vessels, have led some to caution against lowering the threshold for surgical

26. Final Research Plan: Weight Loss to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults: Behavioral Interventions | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    March 31, 2016 - nurses, exercise specialists, dietitians, nutritionists, and behavioral health specialists Surgical … A number of comments suggested including interventions with surgical and nonsurgical devices for the … The use of surgical and nonsurgical devices is considered part of disease management for persons with

27. Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the USPSTF (pdf file)
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    February 13, 2018 - MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Ovarian cancer mortality, false-positive screening results and surgery, surgical … Screening harms included surgery (with major surgical complications) in women found to not have cancer … One smaller trial (n = 21 935) reported no surgical complications. … In addition, surgical complication rates were lower in the UKCTOCS trial than in the PLCO trial. … In addition, the defini- tion of false-positive surgery may underestimate surgical harms, given the

28. Screening for Impaired Visual Acuity in Older Adults: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    Treatment and Interventions Treatments include corrective lenses for refractive error; surgical removal

29. Archived: Ovarian Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    September 15, 2012 - Treatments Treatment of ovarian carcinoma includes surgical treatment (debulking) and intraperitoneal … Screening for ovarian cancer can lead to important harms, including major surgical interventions in women … Adequate evidence shows that screening for ovarian cancer can lead to important harms, including major surgical … Treatment Treatment of ovarian carcinoma includes surgical treatment (debulking) and intraperitoneal … Nearly 21 major complications occurred per 100 surgical procedures done on the basis of false-positive

30. Screening for Lung Cancer: Clinical Summary of USPSTF Recommendation (pdf file)
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    Treatment Non–small cell lung cancer is treated with surgical resection when possible and also with radiation

31. Screening for Skin Cancer: Clinical Summary (pdf file)
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    There are a variety of treatments available for squamous and basal cell carcinoma, including surgical

32. Clinical Summary: Screening for Ovarian Cancer (pdf file)
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    Treatments Treatment of ovarian cancer typically includes surgical treatment (staging or debulking)

33. 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 - photoscreener, Otago [noncommercial] photoscreener, off-axis-type photoscreener, Topcon PR2000) KQs 4, 5: Surgical … We are not evaluating surgical treatments for vision impairment, and we are not assessing the comparative

34. Screening for Coronary Heart Disease: Clinician Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2009 - The diagnostic evaluation for CHD and medical and/or surgical treatment of CHD is often invasive and … unnecessary diagnostic evaluations, and may be subjected to overtreatment with medical/and or invasive surgical

35. Draft Research Plan: Prostate Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    October 12, 2023 - prebiopsy multiparametric MRI KQs 5, 6: Surgery (radical prostatectomy, including different surgical … cognitive dysfunction); endocrinological effects (e.g., bone health, hot flashes, gynecomastia); and surgical

36. Archived: Evidence Summary: Carotid Artery Stenosis: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/carotid-artery-stenosis-screening-july-2014
    July 08, 2014 - for local hematoma requiring surgery among 206 patients who were randomly assigned to the immediate surgical … Changes in technology, standard medical therapy, surgical procedures, and stroke rates may not be reflected … An analysis of perioperative surgical mortality and morbidity in the asymptomatic carotid atherosclerosis … Predicting medical and surgical complications of carotid endarterectomy: comparing the risk indexes. … † During the perioperative period, 2.3% of surgical patients ( n = 19) had a stroke or died (95%

37. Archived: Lung Cancer: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/lung-cancer-screening-december-2013
    December 31, 2013 - Treatment Non–small cell lung cancer is treated with surgical resection when possible and also … Treatment Surgical resection is the current standard of care for localized NSCLC. … The benefits and harms associated with surgical resection of early-stage NSCLC were also examined. … No RCTs compared treatment of stage IA or IB lung cancer with surgical resection versus no treatment. … Surgical resection is the standard of care in the United States for early-stage NSCLC.

38. Procedure Manual Appendix IX. Factors to Consider When Recommending Starting and Stopping Times for Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
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    July 01, 2017 - ethnicity, particular behaviors (e.g., not sexually active), and/or biological or physical factors (e.g., surgical

39. Evidence Summary: Breast Cancer: Medication Use to Reduce Risk | United States Preventive Services Taskforce
    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary/breast-cancer-medications-for-risk-reduction
    September 03, 2019 - Tamoxifen for prevention of breast cancer: report of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel … Vogel VG, Costantino JP, Wickerham DL, et al; National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project. … Update of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene ( … Tamoxifen and depression: more evidence from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project’ … King MC, Wieand S, Hale K, et al; National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.

40. Clinical Summary: Screening for Prostate Cancer (pdf file)
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    Treatments The 3 most common treatment options for men with screen-detected, localized prostate cancer are surgical