ArticlePreventing chronic disease2020
Preventing Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancer Deaths: Assessing the Impact of Increased Screening.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Relationship between health-related determinants and adherence to breast and colorectal cancer screening: a population-based study in Flanders, Belgium.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Provision of colonoscopy in rural settings: A qualitative assessment of provider context, barriers, facilitators, and capacity.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2024Article
- Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in US Immigrants: A Scoping Review.The Journal of surgical research · 2023Article
- Detection of missed deaths in cancer registry data to reduce bias in long-term survival estimation.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Immunohistochemical analysis of Tn antigen expression in colorectal adenocarcinoma and precursor lesions.BMC cancer · 2022Article
- Health Economics Research in Cancer Screening: Research Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2022Review
- A Lung Cancer Screening Education Program Impacts both Referral Rates and Provider and Medical Assistant Knowledge at Two Federally Qualified Health Centers.Clinical lung cancer · 2022Article
- Examining the Association of Food Insecurity and Being Up-to-Date for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screenings.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2022Article
- Cancer Screening Prevalence and Associated Factors Among US Adults.Preventing chronic disease · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionThe US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends select preventive clinical services, including cancer screening. However, screening for cancers remains underutilized in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leads initiatives to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. We assessed the number of avoidable deaths from increased screening, according to USPSTF recommendations, for CRC and female breast and cervical cancers.
methodsWe used model-based estimates of avoidable deaths for the lifetime of single-year age cohorts under the current and increased use of screening scenarios (data year 2016; analysis, 2018). We calculated prevented cancer deaths for each 1% increase in screening uptake and extrapolated to current level of screening (2016), current level plus 10 percentage points, and increasing screening to 90% and 100% of the eligible population.
resultsIncreased use of screening from current levels to 100% would prevent an additional 2,821 deaths from breast cancer, 6,834 deaths from cervical cancer, and 35,530 deaths from CRC over a lifetime of the respective single-year cohort. Increasing use of CRC screening would prevent approximately 8.5 times as many deaths as the equivalent increase in use of breast cancer screening (women only), although twice as many people (men and women) would have to be screened for CRC.
conclusionsA large number of deaths could be avoided by increasing breast, cervical, and CRC screening. Public health programs incorporating strategies shown to be effective can help increase screening rates.
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