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Clinical Breast Exam (CBE)
Used for early detection of breast cancer and recommended every 3 years for women in their 20s and 30s and every year for women 40 and over. It is a physical exam done by a health care provider as part of a regular medical check-up. The provider should carefully feel your breasts and underarm for any changes or abnormalities (such as a lump). He/she should visually check your breasts while you are sitting up and physically examine your breasts while you are lying down. -
Pap Smear
This is a screening test for cervical cancer and all women between the ages of 21 and 65 should have this test done every 3 years. The test is performed by lying on your back and You lie on a table and place your feet in stirrups. The doctor or nurse gently places an instrument called a speculum into the vagina to open it slightly. This allows the doctor to see inside the vagina and cervix. Cells are gently scraped from the cervix area. The sample of cells is sent to a lab for examination. -
Breast Self-Exam (BSE)
A BSE is used to detect breast cancer and is an option for women starting in their 20s. This exam should be performed in the shower, in front of the mirror, and while lying on your back. You should look and feel for anything abnormal and you should know how your breasts look normally. -
HPV test
This is another cervical cancer screening test that is recommended for women between the ages of 30 and 65 slong with normal Pap tests and should be performed every 5 years. The HPV test is performed along with a Pap smear and involves the same technique of taking a sample of cervical cells. -
Mammogram
Yearly mammograms recommended for women starting at age 40. Used for early detection of Breast cancer. A mammograms consists of the breast being briefly compressed or squeezed between 2 plates attached to the mammogram machine--an adjustable plastic plate (on top) and a fixed x-ray plate (on the bottom). The bottom plate holds the x-ray film or the digital detector that makes the image. The technologist compresses your breast to keep it from moving, and to make the layer of breast tissue thinner -
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
This is procedure is used for the early detection of colorectal cancer and polyps. This should be performed every 5 years after the age of 50. During this exam, patients lie on their left side on an examination table. The doctor inserts a long, flexible, lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope into the anus and slowly guides it through the rectum and into the sigmoid colon. The scope inflates the colon with air to give the doctor a better view from the camera mounted on the scope. -
Colonoscopy
This is another test used for the early detection of colorectal cancer and polyps and should be performed every 10 years after the age of 50. If a sigmoidoscopy results come back positive, a colonoscopy should be performed. A doctor uses a thin, flexible tube called a colonoscope to look at the colon and during the exam tissue samples can be collected and abnormal growths can be taken out. -
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