- Title
- Considerations for Evaluating the Introduction of New Cancer Screening Technology: Use of Interval Cancers to Assess Potential Benefits and Harms
- Creator
- Farber, Rachel; Houssami, Nehmat; Barnes, Isabelle; McGeechan, Kevin; Barratt, Alexandra; Bell, Katy J. L.
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 19, Issue 22, no. 14647
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214647
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- This framework focuses on the importance of the consideration of the downstream intermediate and long-term health outcomes when a change to a screening program is introduced. The authors present a methodology for utilising the relationship between screen-detected and interval cancer rates to infer the benefits and harms associated with a change to the program. A review of the previous use of these measures in the literature is presented. The framework presents other aspects to consider when utilizing this methodology, and builds upon an existing framework that helps researchers, clinicians, and policy makers to consider the impacts of changes to screening programs on health outcomes. It is hoped that this research will inform future evaluative studies to assess the benefits and harms of changes to screening programs.
- Subject
- cancer; cohort; ductal carcinoma in situ; mammography; recall; breast mammography; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481682
- Identifier
- uon:50771
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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