In a message dated 25/02/98 21:34:58 GMT, you write:
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Cynic mode on: is the smear progam worth £70M(?) per year?
When death rates in our district are down to 10-15 per year?
When the number of false positives in my practice seems like one a
week?
Dr David J Plews >>
Well known to be not worht the effort. When the breast screening servioce was
being introduced, the same arguments werre applied to the cervical smear
programme and caused some HA's to change back to 5 yearly screening, even
though this is still gilding the lilly
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton
Sheffield S20 1B
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