Purpose Patients with cancer experience acute and chronic symptoms caused by their
underlying disease or by the treatment. While numerous studies have examined the impact …

South Asian (SA) immigrants settled in the United Kingdom (UK) and North America [United
States (US) and Canada] have low screening rates for breast, cervical and colorectal …

Objectives To compare performance measures across all three rounds of the English bowel
cancer screening faecal occult blood test pilot and their relation to social deprivation and …

This issue of JNCCN reviews the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Distress
Management for 2010, updated by the NCCN Distress Management Panel. The NCCN …

Objective Cancer screening should be equitably accessed by all populations. Uptake of
colorectal cancer screening was examined using the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage …

Cervical cancer has led to high mortality rates amongst women in Zimbabwe. Some
members of Traditional Churches in Zimbabwe (TCZ) view going to the hospital as unholy …

Objectives To assess detection rates for colorectal cancer (CRC) and advanced adenomas
in asymptomatic CRC screening participants and bowel symptoms in association with CRC …

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening improves survival and its success depends
on the participation of the at-risk population. Few studies have adequately assessed …

Background Cancer screening programmes in England are publicly-funded. Professionals'
beliefs in the public health benefits of screening can conflict with individuals' entitlements to …

Background Colonoscopy is a valuable screening tool for colorectal cancer. However,
patients experience anxiety when faced with attending a first colonoscopy, and negative …