The prevalence of medical reasons for non-participation in the Scottish breast and bowel cancer screening programmes

Conclusion These patients may not benefit from screening while also being distressed by receiving an invitation. This issue also makes accurate monitoring and target-setting for improving uptake difficult. Further work is needed to estimate robustly the extent to which medical reasons account for screening non-participation in a larger population.
Source: Journal of Medical Screening - Category: Epidemiology Authors: Tags: Short Communications Source Type: research