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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Iranian Women Towards Breast Cancer Screening Methods [PDF]
, 2017 Female breast cancer is the second leading cause of death due to cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women after lung cancer. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice of women about breast cancer\u27s ...
Behbahani, B. M. (Bahar)
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Cervical Cancer Screening [PDF]
Medical Clinics of North America, 2017 Cervical cancer screening in the United States has accompanied profound decreases in cancer incidence and mortality over the last half century. Two screening strategies are currently endorsed by US-based guideline groups: (1) triennial cytology for women aged 21 to 65 years, and (2) triennial cytology for women aged 21 to 29 years followed by cytology ...
Sawaya, George F, Huchko, Megan J
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Ca, 2020 The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that individuals with a cervix initiate cervical cancer screening at age 25 years and undergo primary human papillomavirus (HPV) testing every 5 years through age 65 years (preferred); if primary HPV testing ...
Elizabeth T. H. Fontham +17 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Systematic Review
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer, 2021 Background After the World Health Organization (WHO) announcing about global pandemic of COVID-19 in March 2020 and relocation of health care resources for controlling this infection, cancer screening programs especially colorectal cancer (CRC) have been
A. Mazidimoradi +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011 Quality assurance (QA) is a process that includes the systematic evaluation of a service, institution of improvements and ongoing evaluation to ensure that effective changes were made.
Robert J Hilsden +5 more
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Prostate Cancer Screening [PDF]
Medical Clinics of North America, 2004 During the prostate-specific antigen-based prostate cancer (PCa) screening era there has been a 53% decrease in the US PCa mortality rate. Concerns about overdiagnosis and overtreatment combined with misinterpretation of clinical trial data led to a recommendation against PCa screening, resulting in a subsequent reversion to more high-risk disease at ...
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Health Technology Assessment, 2019 Background: In the UK, patients with one or two adenomas, of which at least one is ≥ 10 mm in size, or three or four small adenomas, are deemed to be at intermediate risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) and referred for surveillance colonoscopy 3 years post ...
Wendy Atkin +21 more
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Cancer stigma and cancer screening attendance: a population based survey in England
BMC Cancer, 2019 Background Cancer-related stigma attracts considerable research interest, but few studies have examined stigmatisation in the healthy population. Qualitative studies suggest that stigma can discourage people from attending cancer screening.
Charlotte Vrinten +3 more
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Temporal trends in mode, site and stage of presentation with the introduction of colorectal cancer screening: a decade of experience from the West of Scotland [PDF]
, 2015 background: Population colorectal cancer screening programmes have been introduced to reduce cancer-specific mortality through the detection of early-stage disease.
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Chest, 2002 Matthew Stanbrook and Ken Flegel caution patience in waiting for better evidence before implementing lung cancer screening programs with computerized tomography for Canadians, despite mean survival times for screen-detected lung cancer of more than 5 years in the context of the International ...
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