Indicators to identify cancer screening providers with suboptimal case detection: A scoping review
What's new? Quality control of cancer screening programs is essential to maintaining high public health standards. Here, the authors reviewed monitoring of case detection in cervical and colorectal cancer screening programs in Europe, and evaluated its effectiveness. They analysed 20 different measures used for this purpose and showed that many of them
Jiayao Lei +5 more
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Predicting optimal impact interventions in the post‐HPV vaccination world
Abstract Prophylactic vaccination is a powerful tool that changes exposure to infections and associated morbidity of preventable diseases. We discuss the impact of pneumococci and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on the population biology of the two micro‐organisms and related public health effects.
Matti Lehtinen +7 more
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The cost-utility of telemedicine to screen for diabetic retinopathy in India.
PURPOSE: To assess the cost-effectiveness of a telemedicine diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening program in rural Southern India that conducts 1-off screening camps (i.e., screening offered once) in villages and to assess the incremental cost ...
Alavi, Yasmene +6 more
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Implementation of and Early Outcomes From Anal Cancer Screening at a Community-Engaged Health Care Facility Providing Care to Nigerian Men Who Have Sex With Men. [PDF]
PurposeAnal cancer risk is substantially higher among HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) as compared with other reproductive-age adults, but screening is rare across sub-Saharan Africa.
Baral, Stefan D +15 more
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Challenges in the future of cancer screening
Abstract The purpose of cancer screening is to reduce mortality, and ideally incidence, from the cancer screened for. Until recently, cancer screening has been offered to all persons in pre‐defined sex‐ and age‐groups. The exception is lung screening which is targeted to high‐risk individuals.
Elsebeth Lynge +29 more
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Postmenopausal women are faced with difficulties in colposcopy, such as easy bleeding from epithelial atrophy, and thinning, atypical colposcopy images, unsatisfactory exposure, and decreased sensitivity of colposcopy. We aimed to improve the sensitivity
Yi Yu +7 more
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Concordance of Colposcopy-Directed Biopsy and Conization Results in Cervical Dysplasia
OBJECTIVE: Cervical cancer prevention requires proper management of women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). A colposcopy is key to diagnosing CIN in women with abnormal cytology.
Cemre Alan, Ulfet Sena Metin, Ali Acar
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Trends in, and predictors of, anxiety and specific worries following colposcopy: a 12-month longitudinal study [PDF]
Objective Little is known about which women are at greatest risk of adverse psychological after-effects following colposcopy. This study examined time trends in, and identified predictors of, anxiety and specific worries over 12 months.
Cara M. Martin +14 more
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Controlled trial of cervical cancer screening frequency among human‐papillomavirus‐vaccinated women
What's new? Since the introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in 2006, vaccine‐type infections have declined markedly. As nonvaccine HPV types generally carry lower oncogenic potential, this shift warrants reevaluation of cervical screening regimens.
Mònica Ortega Llobet +10 more
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Reporting and Assessing the Quality of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies for Cervical Cancer Screening and Management. [PDF]
ObjectiveWe adapted the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 2 (QUADAS-2) tool for studies of cervical cancer screening and management and used the adapted tool to evaluate the quality of studies included in a systematic review supporting ...
Clarke, Megan A +8 more
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