[Colorectal cancer screening: foundations for making progress in screening in Spain].

نویسنده

  • Dolores Salas
چکیده

La prevención secundaria es una estrategia de elección para el ontrol de algunos tiposde cáncer. El cribadoorganizadodel cáncer, omo es bien sabido, debe ofrecerse a las personas sanas si cumple na serie de requisitos1, fundamentalmente si se ha demostrado ue disminuye lamortalidad general y específica de la enfermedad, la incidencia de la enfermedad en estado avanzado, si se conocen ien sus beneficios y sus riesgos, y si el balance entre ellos resulta ceptable. En la actualidad reúnen estas condiciones los cribados el cáncer de cuello de útero, del cáncer de mama y del cáncer olorrectal. Las estrategias de cribado implican realizar pruebas a persoas sanas para detectar enfermedades antes de que aparezcan os síntomas. En muy importante realizar un control de calidad y na exhaustiva evaluación que permitan comprobar las ventajas desventajas; se trata de obtener un importante beneficio con los ínimos efectos secundarios adversos, como falsospositivos, falsos egativos, sobrediagnósticos, etc. El cáncer colorrectal es el segundo tumor por orden de freuencia en hombres y mujeres en España2, y por lo tanto es una rioridad de salud pública. Diversos organismos están recomenando activamente la puesta en marcha de programas de cribado oblacional para el cáncer colorrectal, entre ellos el Consejo de la nión Europea3, que recomienda el test de detección de sangre culta en heces (TSOH) en hombres y mujeres de 50 a 74 años de dad, cada 2 años.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Gaceta sanitaria

دوره 25 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011