The holy grail remains finding an effective screening programme to allow diagnosis at an early stage, before symptoms develop.
However, are we any closer to FE becoming an effective screening tool for new devices?
The availability of an effective screening tool is crucial for early detection and prompt intervention.
Despite its historical intolerance of homosexuality, Fidel Castro's regime has set up an effective screening and reporting system for AIDS.
Yet, the mortality from ovarian cancer can be significantly reduced by the application of an effective screening technique at an early stage.
In 1991 Morris proposed an effective screening sensitivity measure to identify the few important factors in models with many factors.
"We hope to determine whether or not this is an effective screening device in finding early-stage cancers, and whether or not there are effective interventions at an early stage," she said.
The goal of this study was to determine whether the visceral slide test is an effective screening method for the prediction of intra-abdominal adhesions.
Together, these data suggest this in vitro provisional matrix surrogate may serve as an effective screening tool for testing the biocompatibility of future glucose sensor designs.
The challenge thereafter will be to identify novel disease-modifying interventions, which are the essential partner to an effective screening test to achieve clinically effective population-based screening.
Colonoscopy is an effective screening modality for the early detection of colonic polyps and cancer, but screening rates are low particularly among minorities and the uninsured.
