Evaluation of the personalized invitation of Czech citizens to screening programs.

The Czech population has high burden of malignant tumors, and screening programs are therefore an essential part of cancer control policy. At the beginning of 2014 personalized invitation of Czech citizens for cancer screening programs was launched to promote higher coverage by screening. The aim of the paper is to present the up-to-date results of the personalized invitation.

[Implementation of performance indicators in the Czech Breast Cancer Screening Programme - results of the regular monitoring].

The Czech organised breast cancer screening programme was initiated in 2002. Collection of data on screening mammography examinations, subsequent diagnostic procedures, and final dia-gnosis is an indispensable part of the programme. Data collection is obligatory for all accredited centres, in accordance with regulations issued by the Czech Ministry of Health.

[Results of the Czech National Breast Cancer screening programme].

Introduction: Breast cancer screening based on mammography is an effective tool for lowering mortality rates from this disease. The organised and nationwide Breast Cancer Screening Programme has been underway in the Czech Republic since 2002.

Material And Methods: Monitoring of the programme is based on data from the Czech National Cancer Registry (CNCR), Breast Cancer Screening Registry, and the Czech National Reference Centre (CNRC).

[Approach to population-based screening in the Czech Republic, methodology and first results of the personalised invitation of citizens to cancer screening programmes].

In January 2014, a programme of personalised invitations was launched in the Czech Republic, with the objective of inviting insured persons to cancer screening programmes; namely breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening in women, and colorectal cancer screening both in women and men. This programme aims at strengthening the current cancer prevention programmes, and to increase the currently inadequate participation of the target population in these programmes; therefore, personalised invitations are sent to citizens who have not participated in these programmes for several years and therefore at risk of developing a serious disease. The project is coordinated by the Czech Ministry of Health in cooperation with the expert medical societies involved (gynaecology, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal oncology, diagnostic radiology, general practice), representatives of health care payers, and other experts nominated by the Minister of Health.

[Is preoperative bone scintigraphy in early stage of breast cancer T1N0 indicated and meaningful?].

In the Czech Republic bone scintigraphy has still been performed routinely as a part of preoperative staging examinations of early breast carcinomas, which had been in 42% diagnosed in the national breast cancer screening program. The incidence of synchronnous distant metastases was analysed for a subgroup of T1N0 breast carcinomas using the database of the Czech National Cancer Registry. Out of 21,675 women with T1N0 breast carcinomas diagnosed in the decade of 2001-2010 the potential occurence of various distant metastases (M1) was estimated in 147 cases (0,68%).