Potential of personalised approaches in gastric cancer prevention

An effective cancer screening programme should assure high participation of the target population, while also fulfilling a number of criteria set for an organised cancer screening programme, including governance, quality assurance and auditing. Such a programme is supposed to contain mechanisms for identification of the target population as well as for inviting eligible individuals for screening.1 Traditionally, letters of invitation have been used for this purpose, nevertheless new approaches and technologies are currently getting used more in reaching the target population; furthermore, in the future, cancer screening is supposed to develop towards personalised approaches, that is, by planning the screening intervals and even methods based on the individual characteristics of the particular individual as well as the result of the preceding screening test. Population-wide organised gastric cancer screening has so far only been run in Japan and Korea with endoscopy or double-contract photofluoroscopy.2 The Taipei...
Source: Gut - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Gut Commentary Source Type: research