Effects and Costs of Cervical Cancer Screening

The objective of this thesis is to evaluate cervical eaueer screening by assessing its various effects and costs. Questions to be addressed concern the rednetion in incidence and mortality, the unfavourablc effects and the cost-effectiveness of different screening polides (age range and interval combinations). To this end, we used acervical eaueer version of MISCAN, a simulation model that was designed and programmed to evaluate cancer screening. This cervical eaueer screening model. had already been tested against screening data sets from British Columbia (Canada) and from Dutch pilot screeni... Mehr ...