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Screening for cancer may be described as the performance of certain tests in a symptomless person or population, and in which positive tests make a presumptive identification of the cancer or of its precursor lesion. Screening tests for cancer are not diagnostic procedures, and a certain number of false positive and false negative tests will occur. A positive screening test needs to be followed up by further tests which have a high degree of diagnostic accuracy in order to confirm or deny the presence of the suspected cancer or its precursor lesion.
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Hippocrates, about 430 BC
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Kune, G.A. (1996). Principles of Cancer Screening and Surveillance. In: Causes and Control of Colorectal Cancer. Developments in Oncology, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1273-4_19
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