Sentence examples for by the screening programme from inspiring English sources

In 1997, a quarter of all newly diagnosed invasive and in situ breast cancers were detected by the screening programme, and one out of eight was diagnosed in screened women during the interval period between two screening rounds.

As for the other 509 cancers detected by the screening programme, finding the cancers by use of screening made no difference to the women's lifespans.

It is likely that treatment for their cancers would have led to the same life expectancy had they been found by the screening programme or by the women themselves.

The aim of this study was to determine differences between Pap-smear history, tumour characteristics and survival of patients with a tumour detected by the screening programme (SP) or outside the screening programme (OSP) in the region of the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Stedendriehoek Twente in the period 1992 2001.

Time for genetic counselling for carriers identified by the screening programme were excluded from the model.

The possibility of specific groups of participants being particularly susceptible to anxiety generated by the screening programme was also raised.

All tumours in cohort 1 had been detected symptomatically rather than by screening, the screening programme having yet to be introduced in Scotland.

By October 2008 the screening programme had been rolled out to 99 primary care trusts, and screening colonoscopy was being performed in 36 screening centres across England (figure 3).

Similarly, the observed lower acute health-service utilisation in recently diagnosed breast cancer survivors aged 50 70 years (the age range in which women are routinely invited to attend breast screening units in England (NHS Breast Cancer Screening Programme, 2011), compared with other age groups, reflects some of the benefits of early detection offered by the screening programmes.

The current NHS leaflet for breast cancer screening indicates that a woman is three times more likely to experience overdetection than to avoid death from breast cancer by participating in the screening programme.

Members of the target population will receive a pre-announcement, followed by an invitation for the screening programme two weeks later, both by mail.