title: Ministry of health clinical practice guidelines: cancer screening.
abstract: The Ministry of Health publishes national clinical practice guidelines to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on managing important medical conditions. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with key recommendations from the guidelines) from the Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines on cancer screening, for the information of readers of the Singapore Medical Journal. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Ministry of Health website (http://www.moh.gov. sg/mohcorp/publications.aspx?id=24018). The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Singapore.
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authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lee
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authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Chew
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authors.lastname: Consigliere
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authors.lastname: Heng
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authors.lastname: Huang
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authors.lastname: Lui
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authors.lastname: Puvanendran
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authors.lastname: Siow
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mesh_terms: D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic