Sentence examples for limit of screening from inspiring English sources

Because tumors grow slower at older ages, and because mortality from causes other than breast cancer increases with age, such trial-based estimates will be higher than overdiagnosis estimates based on ongoing screening programs that have a constant inflow of women in the lower age limit of screening.

We included patients age 75 80 because at the time of the study, age 80 was considered to be the upper age limit of screening by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

As the views of the GP can influence patient choices, either explicitly through endorsement [ 24], or through more subtle mechanisms [ 25– 27], there is a need for guidance for GPs and other healthcare providers on discussing screening options with their patients who are reaching the upper age-limit of screening programmes [ 28, 29].

12 Although guidelines suggest that screening is not universally required in older patients, neither VA, Medicare, nor other private insurers currently limit coverage of screening for colorectal cancer in older adults in the US.

Our review indicates that several factors may either enhance or limit the acceptability of screening for patients, carers, the general population, and clinicians.

These studies include, but are not limited to, development of screening methods for such mutations, identification, isolation, mapping, and functional analyses of the genes underlying mutations.

As study after study revealed the limits of screening — and the dangers of overtreatment — a thought niggled at my consciousness.

While targeted analyses for selected steroids allow for detection limits as low as 5 pg/mL, 24 non-targeted approaches have to compromise sensitivity and typically higher detection limits of screening protocols at approximately 10 20 ng/mL.

Tolerance limits of screening equipment for ambient noise, durability of consumables, access to timely technical support and availability of loanable equipment when instruments are sent for maintenance/repairs should not be overlooked in the choice of equipment manufacturers.

Currently, there are limited cost-effective methods of screening vulnerary therapeutics.

The value of self-reports of pain in our population of 'mildly symptomatic' workers however remains limited for the purpose of screening.