Cancer Screenings
The USPSTF recommends this imaging modality biennially for breast cancer screening in women aged 40–74.
What is mammography?
The USPSTF gives an A recommendation for screening all adults aged 18 and older for this cardiovascular risk factor.
What is hypertension?
The USPSTF gives an A recommendation for routine HIV screening in adolescents and adults in this age range.
What is 15 to 65 years?
The USPSTF recommends asking all adults about this substance, advising cessation, and providing behavioral interventions and FDA-approved pharmacotherapy.
What is tobacco?
The USPSTF recommends that women planning or capable of pregnancy take 0.4–0.8 mg daily of this vitamin to prevent neural tube defects.
What is folic acid?
For women aged 21–29, the USPSTF recommends cervical cancer screening every 3 years using this test alone.
What is cervical cytology (Pap smear)?
(No HPV)
The USPSTF recommends one-time screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm with ultrasonography in men aged 65–75 who have this risk factor history.
What is a history of ever smoking?
The USPSTF recommends routine screening for hepatitis C virus infection in adults in this age range.
What is 18 to 79 years?
The USPSTF recommends screening for unhealthy alcohol use in adults 18 and older and providing this type of intervention to those engaged in risky drinking.
What are brief behavioral counseling interventions?
The USPSTF recommends screening for osteoporosis with bone measurement testing in all women at or above this age, and in younger postmenopausal women at increased risk.
What is 65 years old?
The USPSTF recommends beginning routine colorectal cancer screening at this age in average-risk adults.
What is age 45?
The USPSTF recommends screening for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in adults with obesity in this age group.
What is 35-70?
The USPSTF recommends routine chlamydia and gonorrhea screening in all sexually active women at or below this age, and in older women at increased risk.
What is 24 years old?
The USPSTF recommends screening for depression in the general adult population, including these two specific subpopulations of women.
Who are pregnant and postpartum women?
In 2018, the USPSTF changed this fall prevention and fracture prevention recommendation to a grade D — recommending against supplementation with this vitamin to prevent falls in community-dwelling adults ≥65.
What is vitamin D?
Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT is recommended for adults aged 50–80 with at least this many pack-years of smoking history.
What is 20 pack-years?
Bonus - This applies to current smokers and to those that have quit within this many years?
For primary prevention of CVD, the USPSTF recommends prescribing a statin for adults aged 40–75 with ≥1 CVD risk factor and a 10-year CVD event risk of at least this percentage.
What is 10%?
The USPSTF recommends screening all pregnant persons early in pregnancy for this sexually transmitted infection to reduce the risk of congenital infection.
What is syphilis?
For adults with a BMI ≥ 30, the USPSTF recommends offering or referring to this type of weight loss program (B recommendation).
What are intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions?
For males aged 55–69, the USPSTF gives this letter grade for PSA-based prostate cancer screening, meaning the decision should be individualized through shared decision-making.
What is a C recommendation?
The USPSTF gives a grade D recommendation for this gynecologic malignancy screening in asymptomatic women without high-risk hereditary cancer syndromes.
What is ovarian cancer?
After an update in 2022, what grade does the USPSTF give to prescribing aspirin for primary CVD prevention in adults at or above age 60.
What is grade D?
The USPSTF recommends screening for this condition only in asymptomatic adults at increased risk, including people born in or formerly residing in countries with high disease prevalence and those living in high-risk congregate settings.
What is latent TB?
The USPSTF recommends offering this to persons at high risk of acquiring HIV — an A recommendation.
What is PrEP?
The USPSTF recommends that clinicians offer this to women aged 35 and older who are at increased risk for breast cancer and at low risk for adverse effects.
What are risk-reducing medications such as tamoxifen, raloxifene, or aromatase inhibitors?