Saturday 19 December 2009

Amendments to Screening Practices & Policies

Cervical screening - time to change the policy
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/176_11_030602/dic10690_fm.html

Where recent changes to screening guidelines go wrong
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/12/01/the-doctor-is-in-do-screening-guidelines-mean-womens-health-ca/

Added 21 Dec 09
Cervical cytology screening and government policy (UK)
http://www.jstor.org/pss/29704626

Added 4 Jan 10
Politics and amendments to cancer screening
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/01/politics-cancer-screening-entrenched-beliefs-hard-change.html

Added 13 Feb 2010
Discussion on changes to mammogram and cervical cancer screening (US)
http://letters.mobile.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/20/cervical_cancer/view/index.html

Added 25 Feb 2010
Possible changes to smear test screening in the USA
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/new-research-may-change-pap-smear-practices-20100119-mj3s.html

Added 12 Mar 2010 - How can the uptake of cervical screening be improved?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11974848?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedreviews&logdbfrom=pubmed

Added 7 May 2010
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100216/Prestigious-journal-suppressing-dissenting-evidence-favoring-unnecessary-cervical-biopsy-industry-complains-HiFi-DNA-Tech-president.aspx?page=2

and

http://hifidna.com/News%20&%20Events%20files/NEJM%20Dr%20Malina%20%282%29.pdf