Last November, U.S. medical authorities recommended changing long-standing guidelines on how often women should be screened for breast and cervical cancer. The bottom line: screen less frequently. Though the new recommendations are by no means the only set of screening guidelines, they did generate lots of reaction. Two UT Southwestern cancer specialists weigh in on the controversies.

Each year millions of men over the age of 40 have prostate specific antigen PSA blood tests as part of routine physical exams to test for cancer in their prostate. But their utility of these tests in detecting cancer at an early stage and ultimately in preventing death from the disease has long been debatable.

Battle Cry: How one brave mom stared down breast cancer and won, with the help of a compassionate UT Southwestern doctor.