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Effectiveness of cervical screening with age
— population based case-control study of prospectively recorded data | | Author(s) | Peter Sasieni, Alexandra Castanon, Jack Cuzick |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 338, no 7716, 8 August 2009 |
| Pages | p 328 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Cancer ; Screening ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | Does the association between cervical screening and a subsequent decrease in cervical cancer incidence vary with age? This is a summary of a paper published on bmj.com in relation to 4012 cases (diagnosed 1990-2008) and 7889 controls (2 per diagnosed case) aged 20-69. The study finds that cervical screening at ages 35-64 is effective at preventing cervical cancer; it is less effective at ages 25-34, and has no effect at ages 20-24. Because of the high quality of the cervical screening programme in the UK, the findings are probably accurate. However, women who go for screening may differ from those who do not. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100419001 A |
| Classmark | BD: CK: 3V: 3KB * |
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