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A Critical Review of Cancer Screening Programs in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Akira Oshima
Akira Oshima
Affiliation:
Osaka Cancer Prevention and Detection Center
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Abstract

In Japan, screening programs for various cancers have been eagerly conducted as part of public health policy. However, these programs have not always produced the results that were originally expected. To improve the ill-planned and unscientific state of the current programs in Japan, two proposals are made.

Type
Special Section: Assessing Nursing and Technology
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 346 - 358
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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