Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Caroline White, London 204, 64, 207, 105 Current age bands for cancer screening in the United Kingdom seem to have been arbitrarily selected and are not based on rational criteria, according to researchers from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. The age band is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of screening programmes and for identifying priorities in screening polic...

Should we be screening for ovarian cancer?

Ovarian cancer carries the worst prognosis of all gynaecological cancers, with an overall five-year survival rate of around 30-40 percent. For women diagnosed with early-stage disease the five-year survival rate is over 80 percent1. Majority of the ovarian cancers present in advanced stages due to vague symptoms. Advanced stage disease carries a poor fiveyear survival rate of around 15 percent....

In search of the best upper age limit for breast cancer screening.

The aim of this study was to determine the best upper age limit for a breast cancer screening programme. We used a model-based study using optimistic and pessimistic assumptions, concerning improvement of prognosis due to screen-detection and duration of the period of mammographic detectability, resulting in upper and lower limits for favourable and unfavourable effects. Under pessimistic assum...

Should the Legal Age for Tobacco Be Raised? Results From a National Sample of Adolescents

Raising the minimum age of legal access to tobacco products may reduce smoking initiation and save lives. In a national telephone survey (2014-2015), US adolescents aged 13 to 17 years (N = 1,125; response rate, 66%) were asked about raising the age of legal access to tobacco products and randomized to hear one of 3 ages (19, 20, or 21 y). Most adolescents, across all US regions, favored raisin...

Should the legal age for buying alcohol be raised to 21 years?