Published 1999 | ISBN 1 871997 93 3 | Archived
Two papers in the British Medical Journal have calculated how many lives might be being saved by the cervical screening programme. Firstly, Quinn et al calculated that the programme prevents 800 women under the age of 55 from dying of cervical cancer each year. Additionally, Sasieni and Adams calculated that 1,300 lives a year and over 8,000 lives over the last 10 years had been saved.
In fact cervical cancer rates, as well as cervical cancer deaths, have fallen significantly over the last few years since organised cervical screening began. The graph on page 5, which shows incidence rates in England and Wales, displays how the number of cervical cancer cases has fallen by 42 per cent in six years from 15.4 cases per 100,000 women in 1990 to 8.9 per 100,000 by 1996.
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