CanScreen5: a global data repository for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening programmes

The inaugural report of the Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5) project – the first initiative of its kind to analyse the organization and implementation of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening programmes worldwide – was published today in the journal Nature Medicine. The report, led by scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), highlights the substantial variability in the organization and performance of cancer screening across countries, provides recommendations for screening programmes to improve the quality and completeness of data, and identifies best practices that can be shared between programmes.

Zhang L, Mosquera I, Lucas E, Rol ML, Carvalho AL, Basu P, et al.
CanScreen5, a global repository for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening programs
Nat Med, Published online 27 April 2023;
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02315-6

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