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Benefits and harms of cervical screening from age 20 years compared with screening from age 25 years

BACKGROUND: To quantify the benefits (cancer prevention and down-staging) and harms (recall and excess treatment) of cervical screening starting from age 20 years rather than from age 25 years. METHODS: We use routine screening and cancer incidence statistics from Wales (for screening from age 20 ye...

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Autores principales: Landy, R, Birke, H, Castanon, A, Sasieni, P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24518600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.65