Question 9869 — diseases

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Cancers can be detected using different methods: screening organized when the public authorities invite a part of the population at regular intervals to carry out a precise examination; individual screening when this approach is considered within the framework of the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Proposing screening requires that a certain number of criteria be met. These criteria are a disease (frequent and leading to significant mortality, detectable at a stage at which it can be treated), the performance of screening tests, the existence of effective treatments and the benefits of screening (greater than its risks). In France, organized screenings concern breast cancer for women between 50 and 74 years old, colorectal cancer between 50 and 74 years old and cervical cancer for women between 25 and 65 years old. These terminals ages are set by the High Authority for Health on the basis of available scientific studies which make it possible to define the population for which the benefit/risk ratio of screening is favorable. They are reviewed based on advances in scientific knowledge. People who are no longer subject to organized screening are followed by their treating physician according to methods adapted to their state of health and their circumstances. wishes. Furthermore, the colorectal cancer screening program is defined by the decree of March 19, 2018 amending the decree of September 29, 2006 relating to cancer screening programs. It must cover the entire territory since 2009 without exception. It is implemented by departmental management structures which will be regionalized from January 1, 2019.

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