‘Cookie-cutter’ screening guidelines overlook many patients at high risk for cancer

Modifiable risk factors such as alcohol consumption, BMI, dietary patterns and smoking could shift cancer risk as much as 60% for certain malignancies.Incorporating these risk factors into “cookie-cutter” screening guidelines could personalize detection and identify a wide swath of the at-risk population that currently is overlooked, Neel M. Butala, MD, assistant professor of medicine