Indeed, in the United States, in a group of 104 patients ≥ 50 years of age from medical clinics, 69.2% and 49%, respectively, identified colonoscopy and FOBT as the main screening tests for the prevention of CRC [ 15] and in a population-based study of 105 white males 50 79 years of age, 75% had heard of colonoscopy [ 11].
The main screening test for cervical cancer is the cytological smear staining technique developed by G. Papanicolaou [ 3] and known as Pap test.
To assess the diagnostic yield of the main cognitive screening tests in Primary Care: the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Clock Drawing Test (CDT), the Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) and the Informant Questionnaire test (IQ).
CANTAB's 25 neuropsychological tests are divided into 7 main groups: screening tests, visual memory tests, executive function, working memory and planning tests, attention tests, semantic/verbal memory tests, decision-making and response control tests, and social cognition and other tests [ 37].
10 SCOPE is a prospective, multicentre cohort study with the main aim of developing screening tests to predict pre-eclampsia, small for gestational age infants, and spontaneous preterm birth.
Auditory discrimination : The main screen of the test features two human-like figures, who speak a word, one after the other.
In many resource-poor settings, fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is the main screening option.
Although there are fixed overheads, the main cost is proportional to the number of screening tests.
Fear of results was cited by 44% of physicians as the main explanation why subjects did not undergo BC screening tests versus only 18% of subjects.
Since PCa is one of the main causes of death among men worldwide, availability of screening tests make early detection an attractive public health option for developed countries.
The main reasons given by GPs for not systematically recommending screening tests (Table 4) were the belief that screening should be restricted to subjects at risk (28%) and the feeling that they were not associated to the general program (19%).
