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Cancer Screening Recommendation

Cancer Screening Recommendation

Update: 2025-05-19
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A 52-year-old man presents for an initial primary care visit at the nurse practitioners practice period he has not seen any health care providers since age 38, stating that he has been in good health. Social history, drinking approximately 2 beers per night over the weekend, two nights per week, has a 5 pack year cigarette smoking history, having taken up smoking when he was in college, and quit at age 22. He reports feeling well and without chief complaint or chronic health problems.  He asks about what kind of cancer screening he should have. The NP advisors which of the following?

A. Colonoscopy 

B. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) 

C. Low dose chest CT

D. Given his history, no routine cancer screening is advised. 

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Cancer Screening Recommendation

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