Early Detection of Cancer
"Early Detection of Cancer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Methods to identify and characterize cancer in the early stages of disease and predict tumor behavior.
| Descriptor ID |
D055088
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.390.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Cancer Screening Tests- Cancer Screening Tests
- Cancer Screening Test
- Screening Test, Cancer
- Screening Tests, Cancer
- Test, Cancer Screening
- Tests, Cancer Screening
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2011 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2012 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 2013 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2014 | 21 | 7 | 28 |
| 2015 | 14 | 11 | 25 |
| 2016 | 12 | 11 | 23 |
| 2017 | 15 | 13 | 28 |
| 2018 | 21 | 14 | 35 |
| 2019 | 15 | 12 | 27 |
| 2020 | 14 | 14 | 28 |
| 2021 | 13 | 22 | 35 |
| 2022 | 7 | 20 | 27 |
| 2023 | 7 | 24 | 31 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6 | 25 |
| 2025 | 16 | 4 | 20 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Early Detection of Cancer" by people in Profiles.
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Gaps in care across the cancer screening continuum for cervical, colorectal, and lung cancers. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Dec 01; 117(12):2556-2570.
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Process Mapping to Compare and Improve Management of Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Results in Two US Healthcare Systems within the PROSPR Consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Nov 03; 34(11):1989-1999.
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Oral cancer risk stratification: A cross-sectional population-based screening study in Northeast India. Int J Cancer. 2026 Mar 15; 158(6):1517-1527.
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A Translational Research Leveraging Diagnostic Accuracy of Innovations in MRI as a Model for Early Breast Cancer Detection in Uganda. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2025 Jan-Dec; 24:15330338251356549.
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Feasibility of Personalized and Tumor-Informed Circulating Tumor DNA Assay for Early Recurrence Detection in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JCO Precis Oncol. 2025 Jul; 9:e2400934.
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Clinical decision tree for optimizing endoscopic assessment of signet ring cell carcinoma in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer surveillance. Endoscopy. 2025 Oct; 57(10):1118-1127.
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Barriers to the Equitable Implementation of Risk-Based Cervical Cancer Management Guidelines. J Gen Intern Med. 2026 Feb; 41(3):759-766.
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Upper GI polyposis and cancer in FAP: diagnosis, surveillance and treatment. Fam Cancer. 2025 May 26; 24(2):49.
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Update on Cancer Screening Recommendations for Individuals with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Clin Cancer Res. 2025 May 15; 31(10):1831-1840.
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Stress-Testing US Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines: Decennial Colonoscopy from Age 45 is Robust to Natural History Uncertainty and Colonoscopy Sensitivity Assumptions. Med Decis Making. 2025 Jul; 45(5):557-568.