Sentence examples for incidence screening from inspiring English sources

Items assessing awareness of cancer warning signs, risk factors, incidence, screening programmes and attitudes towards help seeking were extracted from the literature or generated by expert groups.

This suggests that at least a proportion of cancers diagnosed on incidence screening are not truly incident cancers but cancers that were missed on previous screens; this is not surprising given the interval cancer rate of around 30% that has been previously reported.

Despite having a higher HIV prevalence and cervical cancer incidence, screening remains very infrequent in developing countries presumably because of resource-limitations. Policymakers need data on the effect of screening on cervical cancer mortality to better allocate limited resources.

Design Analysis of prevalence and incidence screening.

This rose steadily to 90% for first incidence screening and to 94.5% for second incidence screening (fig 2).

However, the uptake of the second invitation to first incidence screening was considerably higher than the first invitation to incidence screening, indicating that those who decline an offer of incidence screening are likely to accept further invitations.

The uptake of the first incidence screening on a first invitation was 54%, first incidence screening on the second invited was 86%, and second incidence screening on a first invitation was 46% (fig 1).

The proportion of cancers at stage I dropped from 46.5% for prevalence screening to 41% for first incidence screening and 35% for second incidence screening.

Even more fundamental is the finding that incidence screening continues to detect important neoplastic disease.

Previously, however, relatively little was known about the true effect of prevalence and incidence screening.

It also indicates that repeat invitations for incidence screening have a similar effect.