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The recommendations are for women at "average risk" -- women who are not at higher risk due to known or suspected risk factors that would lead to recommending earlier initiation of screening, shorter intervals, or use of different imaging technology.
We did not search for articles published before 1990, as insufficient time would have elapsed after the initiation of screening.
We also compared the impact of changing age at initiation of screening colonoscopy for different risk mechanisms.
A recently published CE study on age at initiation of screening for type 2 diabetes, released after our analysis was complete, might change that conclusion (76).
These patterns suggest that age differences may even be more relevant for initiation of screening programmes primarily based on sigmoidoscopy than for screening programmes primarily based on stool tests or colonoscopy.
There is some variation regarding age at initiation of screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) between countries, but the same age of initiation is generally recommended for women and men within countries, despite important gender differences in the epidemiology of CRC.
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Of the responding patients, 75% did not expect to change the age at initiation or frequency of screening mammography in the future, whereas 25% either expected to change or did not know if they would alter their screening behavior (Table 3).
This finding indicates the importance in the choice of age at initiation of CRC screening.
Our analyses do not allow a general recommendation regarding the best age for initiation of CRC screening.
We have explored whether, and to what extent, these differences would be relevant regarding age at initiation of CRC screening.
Thus, it is important to understand cervical cancer screening initiation in young women and how woman- and provider-level factors affect the timing of screening initiation to identify areas for improving cervical cancer prevention.
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