title: [Cancer screening: medico-legal aspects].
abstract: The cancer screening programmes need a particular considerations for their medico-legal implications: above all in order to the information toward the persons recruited, those must be aware about their diagnostic limits and about the ineluctable recurrence of false positive and false negative results.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Buzzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed