Journal of medical screening
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Comparative Study
The cervical cancer screening programme in Norway, 1992-2000: changes in Pap smear coverage and incidence of cervical cancer.
Changes in the incidence of cervical cancer were studied to assess the impact of the Norwegian coordinated cervical cancer screening programme introduced in 1995. Attention was given as to whether recommendation letters sent to women without a screen in the previous 3 years could be an alternative to a conventional screening programme that invites women irrespectively of their spontaneous screening. ⋯ The coordinated screening programme provides a low cost way of increasing the coverage of the female population, and consequently has reduced the rate of invasive cervical cancer.
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(a) To monitor experiences of women during three successive rounds of breast screening; (b) to examine the impact of previous experiences (obtained either immediately after the latest mammogram or shortly before the subsequent one) on reattendance; and (c) to examine which factors are associated with the experience of pain and distress during screening. ⋯ Experiences during mammography are fairly stable. Negative experiences were generally not a reason to drop out of the programme.