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Analysis of mass hypertension screening
Preventive Medicine, 1976Abstract Mass screening for high blood pressure is one means of identifying a significant portion of the hypertensive population. In one weekend 30,329 adults were screened and 35% (8,875 of 25,284 with complete data) were referred for high blood pressure.
S B, Garbus, S B, Garbus
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Mass Screening of Neuroblastoma in Infancy
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1982A vanillylmandelic acid spot test for screening infants for neuroblastoma was developed in cooperation with 11 health centers in Kyoto, Japan. In this system, the parent sends a filter paper spotted with the infant's urine at 6 or 7 months of age. From 78,331 infants screened during the six years from July 1973 to September 1979, four asymptomatic ...
Tomoichi Kusunoki +5 more
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Mass Screening for Breast Cancer
Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1986Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in women. There is a certain correlation between the stage of the disease at diagnosis and outcome after treatment. Several studies have been initiated involving mammography with or without physical examination aimed at early detection of breast cancer in asymptomatic women. In order to review the results to
Ásmundur Brekkan +2 more
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Mass Screening for Neuroblastoma
1996Neuroblastoma is the most common solid tumour in infancy. The introduction of multimodality therapy has improved treatment, but the prognosis of advanced neuroblastoma remains dismal. In 1974, Sawada and colleagues started experimental screening for neuroblastoma at 6 months of age using the vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) spot test1,2.
Koichi Ishimoto, Takeshi Miyano
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Mass Screening for Neuroblastoma in Japan
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 1991The present status of the neuroblastoma mass screening program in Japan, the first national trial in the world, is evaluated. This program, now in its fifth year, was conducted in cooperation with the infants' mothers, local health centers, screening centers, and selected hospitals. From the onset of the program in Kyoto in 1973 to the end of 1989, 337
Tadashi Sawada +4 more
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Mass Screening for Colorectal Cancer
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977To the Editor. — As directors of the Colorectal Task Force of the American Cancer Society, District of Columbia Division, Inc, we were interested to read Goodman's negative report on mass screening for colorectal cancer (237:2380, 1977). The American Cancer Society, District of Columbia Division, Inc, is sponsoring a mass screening project in ...
G. Baird Helfrich +2 more
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Mass Screening: Is It Cost-effective?
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980Reported elsewhere in this issue (p 2056) is the experience of a local cancer detection center in finding cancer of the colon. This report, along with others concerning the routine periodic screening of the asymptomatic population, raises questions regarding the benefits derived from mass screening vs the costs.
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Mass screening for colorectal cancer
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1989A voluntary community colorectal cancer screening project to detect occult blood in the stool of asymptomatic individuals was undertaken; 49,353 Hemoccult II kits were distributed. A total of 23,674 completed kits were returned to a central repository and processed (compliance rate, 48 percent); 851 participants had positive results (3.6 percent).
Indru T. Khubchandani +6 more
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Colonoscopy as a mass screening tool
European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1998There is strong evidence that population screening can reduce mortality from colorectal cancer. Screening tests such as faecal occult blood test and flexible sigmoidoscopy are used to identify patients with an increased risk of cancer who would benefit from a full colon examination. There is indirect evidence that colonoscopy may be effective as a mass
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Screening Bone Mass Measurements
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986Excerpt To the editor: The technical limitations of bone mass measurements, and their potential misuse, are discussed by Dr. Ott in her editorial (1).
Richard D. Wasnich, Philip D. Ross
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