Evaluating the strength of potential misplaced priorities in opportunistic cancer screening practice in Greece.

Purpose: Screening is a significant method for cancer control, nevertheless the implementation of non cost-effective screening tests at national level may constitute a major burden to health economics. The purpose of this study was to determine the cancer screening activities of a large sample of the Hellenic population, in a country with opportunistic screening practice.

Methods: A large survey on cancer screening in Greece was organized and conducted by the Panhellenic Association for Continual Medical Research (PACMeR).

Time-trend of melanoma screening practice by primary care physicians: a meta-regression analysis.

Objective: To assess whether the proportion of primary care physicians implementing full body skin examination (FBSE) to screen for melanoma changed over time.

Methods: Meta-regression analyses of available data.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, ISI, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials.

Double-blind control of the data manager doesn't have any impact on data entry reliability and should be considered as an avoidable cost.

Background: Database systems have been developed to store data from large medical trials and survey studies. However, a reliable data storage system does not guarantee data entering reliability.We aimed to evaluate if double-blind control of the data manager might have any effect on data-reliability.

Moving ahead in diabetics' cancer screening; food for thought from the Hellenic experience.

Although data from literature suggest that diabetic women are frequently under screened for gynaecological cancers little is known about screening implementation for other cancers for both genders. This study investigates comprehensive cancer screening practices of diabetics as compared with non-diabetics; analyses screening patterns both by gender and level of evidence and reveals target subgroups that should be paid more attention for screening implementation. 675 diabetics vs.

Cancer screening in Greece. Guideline awareness and prescription behavior among Hellenic physicians.

Background: Primary cancer prevention is offered by the Greek health care system to the population on an opportunistic basis. This means that screening depends on advice from primary care providers and on individuals' request for screening, since a centralized invitational register is lacking. In planning preventive services, an accurate identification of baseline levels of performance for preventive activities is fundamental, so that realistic goals can be set.

Responsibilities in cancer preventive care in Greece. A physicians' survey.

Background: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in European countries. Differences in screening implementation may explain USA vs. European survival differences.

Screening Evaluation System--Europe (SESy_Europe) met skin cancer screening.

Skin tumors are the most frequent malignancies in the white population worldwide and have reached the proportion of an epidemic disease. Since non-melanocytic skin cancers can be cured when timely detected, given that still malignant melanoma may have good prognosis if early diagnosed, and considering the key role of primary care in cancer screening advising and implementation, the international PACMeR study group (trial_01.3) adjourned SESy_Europe database in a version comprehensive of skin-malignancies screening indexing.

Hyperpyrexia secondary to acute hypocalcemic status. Is there a role for calcitonin therapy in bone metabolism derangements due to anticonvulsant drugs?

Hypocalcemia, hyperparathyroidism, hypovitaminosis D, hypocalcitoninemia and decreased bone mass are side effects of several anticonvulsant drugs. Since calcitonin inhibits the mineral mobilization of bone and augments minerals bone content, combined therapy with calcitonin, calcium, vitamin-C and vitamin-D was administrated to a patient with severe anticonvulsant disturbances of bone metabolism. Calcitonin hypersensitivity was evident.