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Screening

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Handbook of Epidemiology

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Screening, sometimes termed secondary prevention, is one of the major components of disease control, the others comprising primary prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation after treatment or disability and palliative care. Ideally, the control of a disease should be achievable, either by preventing the disease from occurring or, if it does occur, by curing those who develop it by appropriate treatment. Complete success from prevention would make treatment obsolete. Complete success from treatment, however, would not make prevention obsolete, as there are costs and undesirable sequelae from the disease and treatment that patients and society would like to avoid if at all possible, especially from diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension. At present, neither is completely successful for most diseases; they will continue to complement each other for a number of conditions, while screening can be regarded as complementary to one or both of the other approaches.

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Miller, A.B. (2005). Screening. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_32

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