cancer screening

CHCS has installed FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation’s ASPIRE Cristalle digital mammography solution at Onaga Community Hospital.

The ASPIRE Cristalle is an advanced mammography system that features Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), a state-of-the-art form of breast imaging that uses a low dose x-ray system to create three-dimensional images. Onaga Community Hospital radiologists can use 3D imaging to better visualize lesions that can be obscured in breast tissue,...

The consequences of COVID-19 have been many and varied, but one that may not be obvious could be a wave of cancer diagnoses. Many patients delayed important cancer screenings during the last two years, and experts are worried that cancers have gone undetected as a result.

Researchers have found that colonoscopies, the best way to screen for colorectal cancer, dropped by nearly half in 2020 compared to 2019, and they worry that there’s still a backlog. March is...

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States, and 25 to 30% of colorectal cancer patients have a family history of the disease according to FightCRC.

That was enough to convince Gary Sorensen, a patient of Dr. David Allen at Community HealthCare System, to start getting regular colonoscopies when he was in his late 40s.

“My dad had colon cancer, and it was detected in his 50s. My dad’s brother and his father...