American Cancer Society’s Cancer Screening Guidelines

Breast cancer

‧ 40-year-old woman should be the following:

1) to do regular monthly breast self-examination (after the menstrual 5-7 days)

2) once every 3 years of clinical breast examination (by a doctor or nurse checks)

‧ 40-year-old women above should:

1) to do regular monthly breast self-examination (5-7 days after menstrual; menopause choose a fixed date)

2) an annual clinical breast examination once (by a doctor or nurse checks)

3) a year once the breast X-ray detection (Mammogram)

Cervical cancer

‧ women should have sex at the beginning of three years or 21 years after the start of cervical smear (Pap smear), usually once a year.

‧ doing Pap test, while at the same time should ask a doctor to check the cervix and other genital mutilation.

Colorectal Cancer

‧ men and women from age 50 should be:

 once every 10 years, colonoscopy (Colonoscopy), or

 an annual fecal occult blood reaction test (FOBT) and every 5 years to do a soft check Sigmoidoscopy (Flexible Sigmoidoscopy), or

 once every 5 years double contrast barium enema photography (Barium Enema)

Prostate cancer

‧ 50-year-old men over a year to be done to the prostate specific antigen blood test (PSA), as well as anorectal examination (DRE).

Liver cancer

(This criteria by the Stanford University Asian Liver Center):

‧ ordinary people over the age of 45 every year to do the blood ammonia? Content test / ALT (liver function)

‧ ask your doctor for you to do B (B) of hepatitis surface antigen (HbsAg) and B (B) hepatitis surface antibody (HbsAb) blood test to see whether you for B (B) of hepatitis carriers, or B (b) there has been a hepatitis virus resistance. General routine medical examination will not be included this inspection, we must take the initiative to ask their doctors.

‧ If you have two negative test results, you is not a B (B) hepatitis (bacteria), but you B (B) nor hepatitis immunity, should receive a complete three-needle of B (B) hepatitis vaccination.

‧ If you have B (b) of hepatitis surface antigen (HbsAg) test results were positive, it means that you have is B (B) of hepatitis carriers in the future must be done every 6 months once α - blood alpha-fetoprotein ( AFP) and Transglutaminase (ALT or SGPT) content testing, and after the age of 30 every year to increase the liver ultrasound. Periodic review is important because one-time inspection of early liver cancer is not sufficient.