Tag: screening
Screening for HIV infection
Diagnosis of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains in France a city of medicine current problem.Besides the mandatory reporting of AIDS disease introduction...
Breast Cancer Screening
EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Breast cancer is the most common of all cancers in women in industrialized countries.
In France, about 42 000 new cases were diagnosed in 2000,...
Screening for cervical cancer
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND AND PRINCIPLES OF SCREENING:
The cervical cancer represents 437,000 new cases per year worldwide and about 23 000 deaths. It is the second...
Colorectal cancer screening and prevention
Annually in France there are about 36 000 new cases of colorectal cancer. The average age of onset is 70 years.
This is a rare...
Prostate cancer screening
WHY?
According to 2000 statistics, prostate cancer is the most common male cancer (40,000 cases per year), and the second leading cause of cancer death...
