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Women ages 50 and under should get screened regularly for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer.
Reduce your risk of cancer by eating right, avoiding alcohol and tobacco, and wearing sunscreen.
Cancer is a scary topic. Often, we d rather not think about it, and sometimes that means putting off important, potentially life-saving yearly cancer screenings like mammograms and pap smears.
If you've been delaying routine medical care in the past year, now's the time to catch up, doctors say. The consequences of missing some key screenings and health checkups can be lethal.
As the medical community unearths troubling consequences for people who put off routine or emergency health care during the coronavirus pandemic, an urgent message is going out to patients: There are some medical appointments you just shouldn t put off any longer, even if you re nervous about venturing into a clinic or emergency room.
In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was one of many primary care doctors making tough decisions about who needed to be seen in person and who could wait a few weeks. But as weeks have turned into nearly a year, our calculus has changed.
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