Screening Programmes

Question 1

Population screening

Answer 1

Screening is a process of identifying individuals who may be at higher risk of disease or condition amongst a large population of healthy people.
Screening provider offers information, further tests and treatment.

Question 2

Diabetic eye screening

Answer 2

• From age of 12+
• every 1 to 2 years
• check for early signs of DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
• no symptoms show till an irreversible stage
• early detection= timely treatment and follow up care to reduce risk of Vision loss by 95%

Question 3

Cervical screening

Answer 3

• All women age 25-64
• smear test to check health of cervix
• not to test for cancer but taken a sample of cells to check for HPV
• HPV: Human papilloma virus

Question 4

Bower cancer screening

Answer 4

• 60-74 years but expanding to make available for 50-59
• use at home test kit : faecal immunochemical test
• collect small sample size of poo and send to a lab to check for blood
• sign of polyps or bowel cancer
• screening can prevent bowel cancer
• colonoscopy offered if blood is detected

Question 5

Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening

Answer 5

• offered to men at 65
• ultrasound screening
  Often cause few or no obvious obvious symptoms
• if it’s bigger it could burst and cause life-threatening bleeding in tummy
• about 8 in 10 people who have burst AAA die before getting to a hospital or don’t survive surgery

TREATMENT:

EVAR: insert graft within aneurysm though small groin incisions using angiography. No risk of surgery

Open repair: surgery of a do Ben to replace aneurysm with graft