Upper age limit for cervical screening.

Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Caroline White, London 204, 64, 207, 105 Current age bands for cancer screening in the United Kingdom seem to have been arbitrarily selected and are not based on rational criteria, according to researchers from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. The age band is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of screening programmes and for identifying priorities in screening polic...

In search of the best upper age limit for breast cancer screening.

The aim of this study was to determine the best upper age limit for a breast cancer screening programme. We used a model-based study using optimistic and pessimistic assumptions, concerning improvement of prognosis due to screen-detection and duration of the period of mammographic detectability, resulting in upper and lower limits for favourable and unfavourable effects. Under pessimistic assum...

The Upper Limit of C-14 Age?

Upper age limit for bronchiolitis: 12 months or 6 months?

confidence in their ability to quit experiencing a reduction in their level of motivation, and smokers achieving success boosting them up. We could not establish with confidence whether motivation levels were still balanced between groups throughout the duration of the study. Lastly, it was suggested to expand upon the correlation between behavioural (i.e. GN-SBQ) and physical (i.e. the Fagerst...

Screening for cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in Tabriz

 Abstract Background: Cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy and is the major cause of death from gynecologic cancer worldwide. The majority of cervical cancers develop through a series of gradual, precancerous lesions. Screening asymptomatic women with regular Pap smears allows diagnosis of the readily treatable preinvasive phase. We performed this study to determin...