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