Open AccessThe Impact of Cancer Screening on All-Cause Mortality
Author(s) -
Andreas Stang,
KarlHeinz Jöckel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
deutsches ärzteblatt international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.436
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1866-0452
DOI - 10.3238/arztebl.2018.0481
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , confidence interval , sigmoidoscopy , demography , cause of death , relative risk , cancer screening , breast cancer , public health , colorectal cancer , environmental health , disease , pathology , colonoscopy , sociology
It is a matter of debate whether, and if so, to what extent, cancer screening programs reduce all-cause mortality. Against this backdrop, we analyzed potential effects of several cancer screening approaches on all-cause mortality in two representative Western European populations.