Question 5 (part 2) · LEK · Screening tests
A 50-year-old female patient, who has not participated in any preventive program for 10 years, gives no history of behavioral risk factors or disturbing symptoms. According to the National Cancer Program, it should be recommended to her that she participates in a population-based screening test for the detection of:
- A. lung and stomach cancer.
- B. cervical, breast and colorectal cancer.
- C. laryngeal and bladder cancer.
- D. lung, breast and head and neck cancer.
- E. the type of cancer that has occurred in the family.
Hint
List the population screening programmes funded in Poland and check which of them cover an asymptomatic woman aged 50.
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