Cancer Screening
Our Cancer Screening is targeted at 3 main types of Cancers- Cervical, Breast and Colon.
If you are a female over 18 years of age or are sexually active, you need to have a Pap Smear at least once every 3 years. Since we started tracking this measure over 2 years ago, RHCC has performed over 2500 Pap Smears on our female patients. This is slightly over 50% of all eligible patients.
If you are female and age 40 or over, you need to have a mammogram at least once every 2 years. Since we started tracking this measure over 2 years ago, RHCC has referred over 1059 mammograms for our female patients. This is slightly over 35% of all eligible patients.
If you are male or female over the age of 50, you need to be screened for colon cancer by one of 3 methods: A Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT) once per year, A Sigmoidoscopy once every 5 years, or A colonscopy once every 10 years. Since we started tracking this measure over 2 years ago, RHCC has either performed or referred over 500 FOBT or colonscopy tests for our patients. This is slightly over 18% of all eligible patients.
If you are age appropriate, please come see us to get screened today!!!
If you have questions regarding Cancer Screening, please see the following links:
http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec80193c0d CDC website link on Cancer topics
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