Corrigendum to “Cancer screening” [Medicine 2023; 51(1): 69–74]

On page 71 of the above article, following two websites should have been included at base Table 2. https://www.cancer.org/healthy/find-cancer-early/american-cancer-society-guidelines-for-the-early-detection-of-cancer.html https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/early-diagnosis/screening-and-earlier-diagnosis/ 72 sentence ‘Clinical trials HPV vaccines are underway and may further reduce incidence cervical cancer’ in paragraph 2, read shown that cancer’. Cancer screeningMedicineVol. 51Issue 1PreviewCancer screening is a source much debate. At interface between public health, specialist care, economics health policy, it creates tensions professional groups, politicians, media public. A test be cheap but applying to population (with rigorous quality control effective downstream processing patients with abnormal results) huge workload cost. Screening can also profound psychological effects. People false-positive results require investigation yet usually eventually found not cancer. Full-Text PDF