Publications by authors named "Mirna Severi"
Objectives: to increase participation of immigrant women at cervical cancer screening programmes.
Design: pre-post study to evaluate the efficacy of recall by phone call in immigrant women.
Setting And Participants: 6,133 immigrant women in Cesena (Emilia-Romagna Region, Northern Italy) who have never made a Pap test in the last three years.
Background: In some Italian areas, colonoscopic surveillance of first-degree relatives (FDRs) of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients is provided as a part of local population-based faecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening programmes. The objective of the present study was to assess the feasibility and early results of this surveillance model.
Methods: Data from district screening centres were used to evaluate the process of identification and selection of eligible FDRs (residence in the Emilia-Romagna Region, age 40-75 years, no recent colonoscopy) of screen-detected CRC patients and the detected prevalence of disease.