Estimating the Benefits of Oral Cancer Screening: Challenges and Opportunities
Francesca Farina, Nicola Cirillo · 2024
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Francesca Farina and Nicola Cirillo weigh what oral cancer screening can truly deliver, and where its numbers mislead, in work from twenty twenty-four. The mouth is easy to inspect, which makes screening look obviously wise. Yet proof that it saves lives is oddly thin.
The one large randomized trial shows only limited mortality reduction from population screening. Detection rates can climb while deaths barely move, a gap the authors tie to familiar screening biases and flattering metrics. They call for sharper dentist training and new tools to support judgment calls. Screening should fold into wider oral health programs rather than stand alone, they argue.
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| CREATOR | Francesca Farina, Nicola Cirillo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |