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Less mortality from cancer population screening
16-06-2015 10:59
The number of women who died of cervical cancer is alone thanks to the population screening halved and in breast cancer the number of deaths by about one third, research shows that Minister has. Today she presents the research to the second Room.
By population research are the past twenty-five years far fewer people died from cancer.
The number of women who died of cervical cancer is alone thanks to the population screening halved and in breast cancer the number of deaths by about one third, research shows that Minister has. Today she presents the research to the second Room.
The actual decline in the number of deaths is even higher, because also the medical science has developed.
According to the researchers is the quality of the population screening in Netherlands very high and also the frequency of calls here better than in the countries around us. That ensures that cancer at an early stage can be detected and treated.
Waiting lists there is also criticism of the Dutch approach. So, people are sometimes treated unnecessarily and worried. And by the population screening for colon cancer, there are waiting lists in hospitals for a look research.
Every year hundreds of thousands of people took part in a population survey. They may be studies on breast, cervical and colon cancer.
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