Cancer outcome research - a European challenge Part II: Opportunities and priorities.

ABSTRACT: In Part I of our review of cancer outcome research, we analysed pros and cons of various measures relevant to quantifying the burden of cancer. Based on our recommendations in Part I, we now discuss in Part II opportunities and priorities in four areas of outcome research: primary prevention; early detection screening; treatment; and quality-of-life assessment. We recommend the establishment of an infrastructure that facilitates high-quality research in these areas: (a) progress in primary prevention can be assessed most directly by monitoring cancer incidence although the interpretation of temporal trends is notoriously confounded by numerous factors that complicate causal inference. (b) preventive screening, with the aim to prevent advanced disease, appears to work well in in some tumour

SUBMITTER: Kalager M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9208079 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature