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. 2022 May 8;25(4):1789–1806. doi: 10.1111/hex.13522

Table 2.

Overview of the expert video presentations.

Title Presenter Content of presentation
  • 1.
    What is screening and what are the potential benefits and harms
General Practitioner and Professor of General Practice
  • Definition of screening
  • Potential benefits of screening (including prevention, earlier effective treatment and reassurance)
  • Potential harms of screening (including overdiagnosis, overtreatment and anxiety)
  • Most individuals do not derive significant personal benefits from screening
  • 2.
    Ethical considerations around screening and determining eligibility
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Public Health
  • Introduction of core principles in medical ethics (do good, do not do harm, treat people fairly and respect choices)
  • How these principles apply to screening
  • The need to balance them when they conflict
  • 3.
    How is eligibility for screening currently determined and what is risk stratification
Senior Policy Analyst
  • Current cancer screening programmes invite people of certain ages
  • In stratified screening, the invitation to screening is based on estimated risk
  • Risk can be determined using personal factors including age, sex, BMI, diet and exercise, genetics and so forth
  • 4.
    The potential effects of introducing risk stratification
Researcher in Primary Care Research
  • Described a series of scenarios of different strategies for inviting people to screening for a common and uncommon cancer
  • Data were based on a population of 100,000 people aged 40–70 years, modelled on the UK Biobank cohort
  • Reported how outcomes (including number screened and true/false positives) might be different for men and women and older and younger people

Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index.