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Adherence to recommendations for follow-up in breast- and cervical cancer screening in Denmark
2021.08.13 |
| Date | Tue 31 Aug |
| Time | 13:00 — 15:00 |
| Location | The auditorium at Randers Regional Hospital, Skovlyvej 15, 8930 Randers NØ |
On Tuesday 31 August at 13.00, Susanne Fogh Jørgensen defends her PhD dissertation entitled "Adherence to recommendations for follow-up in breast- and cervical cancer screening in Denmark".
Timely and appropriate follow-up is crucial for the effectivenss of cancer screening programmes.
However, there is a lack of knowledge on how the entire pathways of follow-up after abnormal screening results perform, whether the pathways follow recommendations and the derived resource use. In this PhD thesis, the entire pathways of follow-up after abnormal findings in the cervical and breast cancer screening programmes were mapped using national health registries. The mapping showed that less than half of the women had follow-up in accordance with the national recommendations following an abnormal cervical cancer screening. In contrast, the majority of women had follow-up in accordance with the national recommendations after abnormal breast cancer screening. Furthermore, follow-up after cervical cancer screening was excessively long in many cases and the use of diagnostic tests and procedures higher than expected.
The results call for a more systematic monitoring of follow-up after abnormal screening and more evidence to develop guidelines on how to terminate these excessively long follow-up pathways in the cervical cancer screening program.
The summary is written by the PhD student.
The defence is public and takes place in the auditorium at Randers Regional Hospital, Skovlyvej 15, 8930 Randers NØ. Please read the attached press release for more information.
PhD student Susanne Fogh Jørgensen
Mail: susanne.fogh@rm.dk
Phone: (+45) 20735648