Cancer screening in Australia: Successes, challenges and future directions

Sanchia Aranda, David C. Currow

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Abstract

Early diagnosis of cancer is a significant contributor to long-term survival and reduced cancer mortality. Success of a cancer screening program is dependent on there being a latent or early stage of the disease, an acceptable means of finding the cancer or precancerous condition early, and an acceptable treatment available that can demonstrably change the expected outcome. Finding cancers early can contribute to improved quality of cancer survivorship and reduce overall health system costs. When precancerous lesions can be identified and removed, screening also has the potential to lower the incidence of cancer. This issue of Public Health Research & Practice explores the performance of Australia’s cancer screening programs, and how screening may be improved or new approaches to screening developed in the future.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2921909
Number of pages2
JournalPublic Health Research and Practice
Volume29
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

© 2019 Aranda and Currow. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence, which allows others to redistribute, adapt and share this work non-commercially provided they attribute the work and any adapted version of it is distributed under the same Creative Commons licence terms. See: www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Keywords

  • long-term survival
  • cancer mortality
  • cancer screening

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