title: [The general criteria and recommendations for the elaboration of programs for the early detection of breast cancer and cervical cancer in Spain. The Working Group for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer].
abstract: Cancer screening and primary prevention of cancer are effective strategies to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality. The experience gained in several European countries about breast and cervical cancer has been growing in the last decades. This fact facilitates the adoption of the most convenient strategies to implement screening programmes in Spain. The Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs set up a work group of experts and health managers to make recommendations and to define the basic criteria to take into account when planning and implementing these programmes. The article describes those recommendations as well as the priorities to be established regarding the target population, and the strategies to increase efficiency of those programmes. Recommendations were made according with scientific evidences and the current situation and resources in Spain.
authors.affiliation: Programa de detección precoz de cáncer de mama en Navarra.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ascunze Elizaga
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González Enríquez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: González Navarro
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herranz Fernández
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marqués Bravo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martín Pérez
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005062:European Union / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*
vernacular_title: Criterios generales y recomendaciones para la elaboración de programas de detección precoz de cáncer de mama y cáncer de cervix uterino en España. Grupo de Trabajo de Detección Precoz de Cáncer de Mama y de Cervix Uterino.