The medical evidence is clear: Cervical cancer screening saves lives. Much of th
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The medical evidence is clear: Cervical cancer screening saves lives. Much of the focus of cost-effectiveness research addresses issues concerning the appropriate screening interval. D.M. Eddy (Screening for cervical cancer, Annals of Internal Medicine 113, 214-226, 1990) studied the issue and estimated that annual screening for a hypothetical cohort of 1,000 22-year-old women screened until age 75 would cost $1,093,000 and would save 27.6 life years. If screened every three years instead, the cost would be $467,000 and 26.8 life years would be saved. Is annual screening cost effective? Explain.
Explanation / Answer
IS ANNUAL SCREENING COST EFFECTIVE ? EXPLAIN
Lung can be done in a cost effective manner .
However the lung cancer to be cost effective then it must be done in a proper way . The right patients should be screened, these patients must be screened correctly and if we find things that are suspicious for lung cancer or something else we must denge the patients correctly, that they should find out if they are eligible for lung cancer screening and then think about it and talk it over with one of their providers to see if they wants to proceed . However if they are still smoking , the most important thing they can do is to stop smoking .
In the early planning of the study before 2002 in the study the researchers wanted to make sure that they capture both the benefits of CT screening if they are ready and the cost after the researchers found out that the CT screening didn't infact provide benefits in terms of prolonged life expectancy , it had extensively been reviewed the cost of the CT screening process to look at the ratio of the cost to the benefits and that's where we are today.