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GYN: Cervical Cancer ScreeningFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Fri Jul 16 07:27:39 2004
In This week's issue of The Lancet - Cervical cancer screening 'Cervical screening has prevented an epidemic that would have killed about one in 65 of all British women born since 1950 ' Deaths rates from cervical cancer have fallen in many countries since national screening programmes were introduced, but this reduction does not reliably indicate the present and future effect of screening. In an Article, Julian Peto and colleagues analysed trends in cervical cancer mortality before 1988, when the UK national call-recall programme was introduced, to estimate what future trends in mortality would have been. Their projections indicate that the UK screening programme has prevented British death rates from cervical cancer being among the highest in the world. In a Comment paper, Ruth Etzioni and David Thomas say that screening for cervical cancer should continue: even if a disease has become rare, control of it should not stop. http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9430/full/llan.364.9430.talking_points.30298.1
-- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker
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