Although there was a recovery in 2021, the figures for 2022 are according to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment lower again than before the corona period.
A population survey is a medical examination of people who have no complaints about their health. The aim of the research is to find disease or a hereditary predisposition to it. People receive invitations to participate in various surveys, but the percentage that responds to them has decreased in recent years.
The percentage of the breast cancer population screening decreased from 73 percent in 2021 to almost 71 percent in 2022. In the colon cancer screening it went from 71 to 68 percent. In cervical cancer there was a decrease from 54 to 46 percent.
The RIVM is investigating why people participate less often. It is known that some of it ‘is not achieved in the existing way’. “These generally concern people with a lower income, lower education and/or migration background. That is why RIVM is working to get a better idea of how these people can be informed.”
Cancer discovered
The figures for 2022 show that a form of cancer was found in thousands of people through population screening. Or in the case of colon cancer and cervical cancer, often a preliminary stage.
For breast cancer this involved 6,869 participants, for cervical cancer 3,642 (96 percent precursors, 4 percent cancer) and for colon cancer 16,616 people (87 percent precursors, 13 percent cancer).
2023-10-05 10:33:47
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