Issues of primary prevention and screening for tumourous disease at the primary care physician level
2009
Abstract
General principles of prevention and screening unequivocally show that primary care is the cornerstone of screening programmes. Specific data from faecal occult blood test screening at a gastroenterologist's practice showed that screening was not performed at a sufficient scale as is also suggested by the national data from the years 2001-2005; neither the data after 2006, assessed qualitatively differently, have shown any improvement.
By contrast, though, an improvement in mortality can be expected in the following 3-5 years at the earliest.