I suppose it was a case of wanting to kill the messenger". He added that, ironically, Bridgewater officials annually screen "Follies" to employees, "as a training film in what not to do". Though "Follies" has been credited with helping improve conditions at mental hospitals across the country, it didn't prevent a 1987 tragedy at Bridgewater, where five inmates committed suicide.
The women were annually screened for 75% of their total period of follow-up.
Stirling et al (2005) annually screened 1,110 high-risk women and only found two early stage (stage I) ovarian cancers.
These 459 women came for 1116 screening visits during 690 annually screened women-years (2.4 visits/woman and 1.6 visits/year).
Recently, the UK Age Trial showed a non-significant 24% breast cancer mortality reduction in women aged 40 48 that were annually screened (Moss et al, 2006).
Individuals 50 years of age or older with a tobacco smoking history of 20 or more pack-years and one additional risk factor should be annually screened.
According to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for the management of diabetes (4, 5), diabetic patients should be annually screened for eye complications.
Additional long-term data on the prevalence of lung cancer in an asymptomatic at-risk population annually screened over multiple years are needed to enable further estimates in this area.
The European Psychiatric Association [ 32] and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines both recommend that patients with schizophrenia are annually screened for obesity and cardiovascular risk factors, and receive guideline concordant prophylactic treatment of these factors, but this does not appear to happen [ 33].
The distribution of cancers and prognostic profiles translated into small absolute differences in modelled 5- and 10-year breast cancer-specific survival in a hypothetical cohort of 100 000 screens performed either annually or biennially (0.6 and 1.2%, respectively), in favour of the annually screened group.
