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Cancer screening and age in the United States and Europe.
- Source :
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Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2009 Nov-Dec; Vol. 28 (6), pp. 1838-47. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- We compare cancer screening rates between the United States and Europe. Many European countries have organized screening programs, whereas the U.S. approach is relatively decentralized. Many European countries, unlike the United States, also impose upper age limits on screening. Overall, European screening rates were 22-88 percent of the corresponding U.S. rates. U.S. residents are more likely to be screened at younger ages, when the expected benefit from early detection is the greatest, but also at older ages, when the expected benefit is declining.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Breast Neoplasms diagnostic imaging
Breast Neoplasms epidemiology
Breast Neoplasms mortality
Colonoscopy statistics & numerical data
Europe epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Mammography statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
United States epidemiology
Young Adult
Early Detection of Cancer statistics & numerical data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1544-5208
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health affairs (Project Hope)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19887425
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.1838