In order to maintain accurate family histories from their patients, physicians should get a comprehensive family history by age 30, and then update it every five to 10 years because histories change significantly between ages 30 and 50 years. According to a new study by a multi-institution team of NCI-supported researchers, getting updated histories every
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Scientists from the National Lung Screening Trial, who originally announced preliminary findings in November 2010, have now published their results, showing a 20 percent reduction in lung mortality among heavy smokers screened with low-dose CT compared to those screened with chest X-ray. Watch Dr. Richard Fagerstrom, NCI mathematical statistician, discuss the NLST concept design and primary results
Click here to listen to Dr. Paul Spellman, computational scientist, discuss TCGA and the ovarian cancer results.
The most frequent request NCI receives from reporters is to provide the latest cancer statistics: incidence, mortality, and survival, often broken down by age, race, or gender. To provide this information, press officers from NCI’s Office of Media Relations turn to the Cancer Statistics Review, a report published by NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)