Diagnose earlier, live longer? The impact of cervical and breast cancer screening on life span.

ABSTRACT: Cancer has become a leading cause of death and aroused the cancer scare. Breast and cervical cancer are two main health threats for women. In order to reduce mortality through early detection and early treatment, cancer screening has been widely recommended and applied for breast and cervical cancer detection and prevention. However, the benefit of cancer screening has been a controversial issue for the recent decades. The Chinese government has launched a free screening program on breast and cervical cancer for women since 2009. There is lack of strong data and sufficient information, however, to examine the effect of breast and cervical cancer screening. A Difference-in-Difference model estimated by Cox proportional hazard estimation was applied to evaluate the effects of breast and cerv

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299384 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature