Effect of screening on incidence of and mortality from cancer of cervix in England: evaluation based on routinely collected statistics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the impact of screening on the incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer.

Design

Comparison of age specific incidence and mortality before and after the introduction of the national call and recall system in 1988.

Setting

England.

Subjects

Women aged over 19 years.

Results

From the mid-1960s, the number of smears taken rose continuously to 4.5 million at the end of the 1980s. Between 1988 and 1994, coverage of the target group doubled to around 85%. Registrations of in situ disease increased broadly in parallel with the numbers of smears taken. The overall incidence of invasive disease remained stable up to the end of the 1980s, although there were strong cohort effects; from 1990 incidence fell continuously and in 1995 was 35%

SUBMITTER: Quinn M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27810 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature