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Screening practice and misplaced priorities
- Source :
- Clinical and Translational Oncology
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009.
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Abstract
- Purpose: To estimate cancer screening coverage among a large sample of Greek individuals. Methods: 7012 adults from 30 Hellenic areas were surveyed. Tests included: faecal occult blood test, sigmoidoscopy, chest X-ray, urine test, testicular examination, trans-rectal ultrasound, full blood count, skin examination, digital rectal examination, PSA, Pap test, mammography, clinical breast examination (CBE), self breast examination and breast ultrasound. Results: Eighty-eight percent of males and 93% of females declared being interested in cancer screening; 37.8% of men and 37.9% of women had had a medical consultation for screening purpose in the previous 2 years. Less than 2% reported having received screening for colorectal cancer or skin malignancies. Screening for cervical cancer, mammography and CBE was reported by 39.6%, 22.8% and 27.9% of females respectively. Twenty percent of males reported screening for prostate cancer. Conclusion: The actual opportunistic screening approach presents important deficiencies with displaced priorities in test performance and a low proportion of individuals undergoing recommended tests. © Feseo 2009. 11 4 228 236
- Subjects :
- Male
Cervix
Skin cancer
Medicine
Male genital system examination
Melanoma
Sigmoidoscopy
Cancer
Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis
Greece
Obstetrics
Statistics
Prostate
Colonoscopy
General Medicine
Multicenter study
Clinical trial
Attitude to health
Digital rectal examination
Oncology
Health care planning
Prostate tumor
Attitude to Health
Human
Mammography
medicine.medical_specialty
Uterine cervical neoplasms
Colon
Physical examination
Urinalysis
Article
Education
Cancer screening
Medical research
Occult blood
Humans
Physical Examination
Mass screening
Aged
Preventive medicine
Gynecology
Consultation
Physical Examination/statistics & numerical data
Health Priorities
Prevention
Rectum
Rectal examination
medicine.disease
Colorectal cancer
Social status
Patient participation
Breast neoplasms
Cancer Research
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Transrectal ultrasonography
Neoplasms
Mass Screening
Breast
Health priorities
Middle aged
Skin
Cervical cancer
Prostate cancer
medicine.diagnostic_test
Middle Aged
Papanicolaou test
Neoplasms/*prevention & control
Body mass
Screening
Female
Prostatic neoplasms
Thorax radiography
Uterine cervix cancer
Adult
Breast examination
Echomammography
Greece/epidemiology
Breast tumor
Breast Neoplasms
Mammography/statistics & numerical data
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/diagnosis
Pap test
Blood cell count
business.industry
Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis
Prostatic Neoplasms
Mass Screening/*utilization
Neoplasm
Utilization review
Patient Participation
Uterine cervix tumor
business
Controlled study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16993055 and 1699048X
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical and Translational Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c214a0ead3a91c54d0bd4f2290a205d7