Thread by @WHO_Europe

New publication! A short reference guide to help policymakers get to grips with the complexities, evidence & principles around cancer #screening - seeking to increase effectiveness of screening practices by maximizing benefits & minimizing harms👉 bit.ly/3GfQqRD

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All screening programmes do some harm.

Some screening programmes do good as well as harm.

For some screening programmes, the benefits outweigh the harms.

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What are some of the benefits & harms of screening?

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#UnitedActionAgainstCancer

For #cancer screening to be effective - it MUST be delivered as a pathway.

🔵Before starting or scaling up a screening programme, policy-makers must make sure all steps of a screening pathway can be provided

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Working through all the potential consequences is an important step towards creating a reasonable estimate of the true effect of a screening programme

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There are no perfect screening tests - false positives and false negatives are always a possibility

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This quick guide is based on a previous WHO guide, Screening programmes: a short guide, published in 2020.

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