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Cancer screening in the elderly

J A van Dongen1

  • 1Department of Surgery, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam.

European Journal of Surgical Oncology : the Journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology
|November 4, 1998
PubMed

Abstract:

Population-based cancer screening is effective only for a few tumour types. For these categories the screening programs have upper age limits. Arguments are provided for why population-based cancer screening is contraproductive in the elderly, even for cancers with a high incidence in old age.

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