Screening recommendations
Breast Screening
Women aged 40-74 years
- Mammography every 2 years
Cervical Screening
Women aged 21-29 years
- Pap smear alone every 2 years
Women aged 30-65 years
- Pap smear alone every 3 years
- High-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing alone every 5 years
- Pap smear with high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing every 5 years
Colorectal Screening
Adults aged 45-75 years
- High-sensitivity guaiac fecal occult blood test (HSgFOBT) or fecal immunochemical test (FIT) every year
- Stool DNA-FIT every 1 to 3 years
- Computed tomography colonography every 5 years
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 10 years + annual FIT
- Colonoscopy screening every 10 years
Adults aged 76-85 years
- Physicians selectively offer screening for colorectal cancer.
Patients and physicians should consider the patient's overall health, prior screening history, and preferences.
Lung Screening
Adults aged 50 to 80 years who have a 20 pack-year* smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years.
* One pack-year is equal to smoking an average of 20 cigarettes (1 pack) per day for a year.
- Low-dose computed tomography (CT) every yearStop screening once a person
- Has not smoked for 15 years or
- Has a health problem that limits life expectancy
Prostate Screening
Men aged 55 to 69 years
The decision to undergo periodic prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening should be an individual one.
Men should have an opportunity to (1) discuss the potential benefits and harms of screening with their physician and (2) to incorporate their values and preferences in the decision.
Men aged 70 years and older
- The USPSTF does not recommend PSA-based screening for prostate cancer.
Recomendations are from US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)