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Cancer Screening

Cancer Screening Overview

Cancer screening programmes exist for bowel, breast and cervical cancer for patients in specified age ranges:

  • Bowel: all patients aged 56y, 58y, 60y-74y.
  • Breast: all female patients aged 50y-70y
  • Cervical: all female patients aged 25y-64y

Screening Exclusions

The cancer screening tables are created from CORE with no age restriction or any other exclusions, except gender in breast cancer screening and cervical screening. The age_at_event column shows the age of the patient when the screening took place in order to assist identification of patients screened within the national programme.

Although patients who have had a colectomy or mammectomy will not be included in the respective screening programmes, the only nationally defined exclusion codeset is for the cervical screening programme. This covers patients with hysterectomies and similar interventions. The exclusion columns in the screen_cervical_cancer table refer to the earliest date for this codeset (NOCX_COD). These columns allow for filtering patients that may not have been included in screening programmes or for identifying interventions following a screening.

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Screening

For full information on cancer screening age ranges see Analysis: Cancer Screening

For full information on cervical cancer screening exclusions see Analysis: Cancer Screening

For full information on cancer screening age ranges see Analysis: Cancer Screening

For full information on cervical cancer screening age ranges and exclusions see Analysis: Cancer Screening