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Preventative Medicine

Lung Cancer

  • Patients who are:
    • Age 55-80
    • 30 pack-year smoking history
    • current smoking or quit in last 15 years
  • Annual LDCT until quit for 15 years or new health condition significantly reducing life expectancy/treatment options

Aspirin for primary prevention of CVD/CRC

  • Recommended for patients (Grade B):
    • Aged 50-59
    • ASCVD 10-year risk >= 10%
    • Not increased risk for bleeding
    • Life expectancy 10+ years
    • Willing to take for 10+ years
  • Recommended for patients (Grade C):
    • Aged 60-69
    • ASCVD 10-year risk >= 10%
    • Not increased risk for bleeding
    • Life expectancy 10+ years
    • Willing to take for 10+ years
  • Insufficient evidence for patients under 50 and over 70

Bacteruria

  • Asymptomatic pregnant women

Blood pressure

  • Adults 18+

Breast cancer

  • Women with:
    • a personal or family history:
      • breast
      • ovarian
      • tubal, or
      • peritoneal cancer
    • Women who have an ancestry associated with breast cancer susceptibility 1 and 2 (BRCA1/2) gene mutations

should screen with appropriate brief familial risk assessment tool; if positive, receive genetic counseling and possibly tests (Grade B, August 2019)

shared/general/preventative.txt · Last modified: 2019/12/11 23:19 by 127.0.0.1