Eating the right foods and drinking plenty of water is always important to your health. Focusing on good nutrition is even more important before and after you donate plasma. Follow these tips for a safe and successful plasma donation experience and to get your body ready to donate. On this page: Before you donate plasma, After you donate plasma, Anytime.
Screening Tests That Have Been Shown to Reduce Cancer Deaths. 1  Colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and high-sensitivity fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs) These tests have all been shown to reduce deaths from colorectal cancer. 2  Low-dose helical computed tomography.
If cancer is diagnosed, other tests may be used to check the progression of the cancer, including: 1  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the prostate - often done before a biopsy. 2  bone scan - to check whether or not cancer cells have spread to the bones. 3  computed tomography (CT) scan - a specialised x-ray.