Search Media Items

Hereditary cancer means cancer runs in your family, and could be caused by a change in certain genes that you inherited from your mother or father. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are two genes that are important to fighting cancer.

Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) PS15-1509:Health Department Demonstration Projects for Comprehensive Prevention, Care, Behavioral Health, and Social Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) of Color at Risk for and Living with HIV Infection

Part 1 of the Endoscopist Version CME includes basic information about colorectal cancer and screening, factors that affect when and how patients should be screened, and detailed screening and surveillance guidelines based on personal and family history. It is the first of two parts of a continuing education activity that provides guidance and tools for clinicians on the optimal ways to implement screening for colorectal cancer to help ensure that patients receive maximum benefit. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/videos/colorectal/quality/Endoscopist1/CRC_Screening_Optimizing_Quality_Endoscopist1_256k.mp4

Part 1 of the Primary Care Version CME includes basic information about colorectal cancer and screening, factors that affect when and how patients should be screened, and detailed screening and surveillance guidelines based on personal and family history. It is the first of three parts of a continuing education activity that provides guidance and tools for clinicians on the optimal ways to implement screening for colorectal cancer to help ensure that patients receive maximum benefit. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/videos/colorectal/quality/Primary_Care1/CRC_Screening_Optimizing_Quality_Primary_Care1_256k.mp4

Part 2 of the Endoscopist Version CME focuses on colonoscopy and includes pre-procedure considerations for ensuring that colonoscopy is appropriate, ways to achieve good bowel preparation, the elements required for complete reporting, effective communication with referring providers and patients, and monitoring quality indicators to improve performance. It is the second of two parts of a continuing education activity that provides guidance and tools for clinicians on the optimal ways to implement screening for colorectal cancer to help ensure that patients receive maximum benefit. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/videos/colorectal/quality/Endoscopist2/CRC_Screening_Optimizing_Quality_Endoscopist2_256k.mp4

Part 2 of the Primary Care Version CME focuses on why stool blood testing should be offered to patients and the elements of high-quality stool testing, such as selecting an effective test, identifying eligible patients, communicating with patients effectively, high-quality test handling and processing, and ensuring high test completion rates and follow-up after abnormal test results. It is the second of three parts of a continuing education activity that provides guidance and tools for clinicians on the optimal ways to implement screening for colorectal cancer to help ensure that patients receive maximum benefit. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/videos/colorectal/quality/Primary_Care2/CRC_Screening_Optimizing_Quality_Primary_Care2_256k.mp4

Part 3 of the Primary Care Version CME describes the role of the primary care provider in delivering high-quality colonoscopy, such as pre-procedure risk assessment, safety issues to report to the endoscopist, guidance on bowel preparation and sedation, interpreting the endoscopy report, appropriate follow-up for incomplete exams, and questions to ask the endoscopist to be sure he or she is providing high-quality exams. It is the last of three parts of a continuing education activity that provides guidance and tools for clinicians on the optimal ways to implement screening for colorectal cancer to help ensure that patients receive maximum benefit. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html This video can also be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/videos/colorectal/quality/Primary_Care3/CRC_Screening_Optimizing_Quality_Primary_Care3_256k.mp4

Learn more about the role of siblings through this family’s story.

Abril es el Mes de Concientización sobre el Autismo. Obtenga más información acerca del rol de los hermanos a través de la historia de esta familia.

El 8 de mayo es el Día Internacional de la Talasemia. ¿Sabía que la talasemia beta mayor, el tipo de talasemia más grave, afecta a cerca de 1000 personas en los Estados Unidos? Al seguir firmemente un tratamiento a largo plazo, las personas con talasemia pueden disfrutar una vida plena.