Most respondents held positive attitudes towards continuing screening after the end of the call recall programmes; consistent with a previous study showing that the majority of British women aged over 70 would like to continue receiving automatic invitations for mammography screening after the end of the routine programme regardless of health status [ 15].
Wellington and colleagues are continuing screening of several libraries for additional modulators of ApoE and ABCA1.
As such, if we aim to identify the majority of subjects at risk for type 1 diabetes, it is necessary to continue screening for DAAs in early childhood, whereas screening in late adolescence and early adulthood will likely identify those with late-stage β-cell decline in whom therapy is not as effective.
The decision whether or not to continue screening for a specific cancer may require support from health professionals in primary care to enable a more personalised or 'negotiated' recommendation [ 21, 22].
If nurses are to continue screening for depression there needs to be a more collective approach in primary care to enable its effective adoption which includes establishing support, training and systems and protocols that will ensure cognitive participation in depression work.
Our Feb. 2 article in The Lancet addressed this issue, which is the failure to continue screening long enough for its benefit to become evident and failure to assess that benefit during a relevant time period.
A general suggestion is to continue screening with mammography for elderly women as long as their health is not significantly compromised by illness that drastically reduces life expectancy [11].
However, continued screening for vector-adaptive mutations will be critical, especially now that strains of the ECSA lineage, which gave rise to the Indian Ocean lineage, have been introduced into Brazil (4 ).
These data demonstrate that information on cancer risk in elderly HIV-infected persons is still evolving, and until more definitive information becomes available, the clinician should be aware of and continue screening for HIV-associated and age-associated malignancies.
Among this population, the distribution of diagnosed and undiagnosed individuals will be shaped by the rate of arrival of new cases and continued screening for diabetes by the medical system.
