Factors associated with organized and non-organized colorectal cancer screening

Factors Associated with Organized and Opportunistic Cancer

Cancer is the most common cause of death in Korea (Statistics Korea, 2011). In 2009, 69,780 people died of cancer, accounting for 28.3% of all deaths in Korea. That year, the incidence was 398.9 per 100,000 men and 376.9 per 100,000 women; it had increased rapidly from 1999 to 2009, growing annually by 3.3% (Jung et al., 2012). Because of the high incidence of cancer, the Korean National Cancer...

Outreach and Inreach Organized Service Screening Programs for Colorectal Cancer

BACKGROUND Outreach (i.e., to invite those who do not use, or who under use screening services) and inreach (i.e., to invite an existing population who have already accessed the medical system) approaches may influence people to increase their use of screening test; however, whether their outcomes would be equivalent remains unclear. METHODS A total of 3,363,896 subjects, 50-69 years of age, ...

Organized colorectal cancer screening in integrated health care systems.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an ideal target for early detection and prevention through screening. Noninvasive screening options are the guaiac fecal occult blood test and the fecal immunochemical test. Organized screening offers the promise of uniformly delivering screening to all members of a population who are eligible and due. Organized screening is defined as an explicit policy with defined ...

Organized breast cancer screening programs in Canada.

Screening for prostate cancer: are organized screening programs necessary?

Already in 1991 when the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test was proposed as a diagnostic test, screening for prostate cancer (PCa) was considered controversial due to the considerable risk of detecting latent PCa. Randomised controlled trials were initiated to assess the potential of PSA-based screening in reducing disease-specific mortality. Harms and benefit were closely monitored and both ...