ICSN Meeting: 2006 Ottawa

The 2006 meeting of the International Cancer Screening Network was held in Ottawa, Canada.

• Agenda
• Participants

Abstracts

• Approaches to Evaluating
• Cervical Cancer Surveillance
• Colorectal Cancer Surveillance
• Cost-effectiveness
• Performance Evaluation
• Posters
• Processes

Presentations

Keynote Address

• The Challenges of Implementing Screening Programs Across Cancer Types —Verna Mai, M.D., M.H.Sc., F.R.C.P.C. (600 KB)

Performance Evaluation/Interval Cancers

• Effect of Process Indicators on the Episode Sensitivity of Mammography —Tytti Sarkeala, M.Sc. (48 KB)
• Characteristics of Radiologists and Screening Centers Associated with Interval Breast Cancer Among First Participants to the Quebec Breast Cancer Screening Program (PQDCS) —Nicole Hébert-Croteau, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
• Mammographic Screening Performance Over Time: Influence of Breast Density and Hormone Replacement Therapy —Mireille Broeders, Ph.D. (306 KB)
• GIS as a Tool to Evaluate Access to Breast Screening —Judy Caines, M.D., F.R.C.P.C. (7,041 KB)

Processes for Improving Interpretive Performance

• Measuring and Improving Radiologists' Interpretive Performance on Screening Mammography —Karla Kerlikowske, M.D. (317 KB)
• Improvement in Screening Radiologists' Performance in an Organized Screening Program —Nancy Wadden, M.D. (570 KB)
• Influence of Radiologist Reading Volumes on Screening Outcomes: A Pan-Canadian Study —Rene Shumak, M.D., F.R.C.P.C. (55 KB)

Colorectal Cancer Surveillance

• Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Surveillance: Introduction and Overview —Carrie Klabunde, Ph.D., M.P.H. (141 KB)
• Comparing Yield of FOBT and FS in an Average Risk Population: Results After Two Screening Rounds —Nereo Segnan, M.D., M.S. (170 KB)
• Colorectal Cancer Screening in Finland as Public Health Policy —Nea Malila, M.D., Ph.D. (80 KB)
• Modeling Efforts to Inform Countries' Screening Decisions —Ann Zauber, Ph.D. (437 KB)

Cost-Effectiveness

• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Screening —Martin Brown, Ph.D. (123 KB)
• Cost-Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies in Different World Regions —Jane Kim, Ph.D. (149 KB)

Approaches to Evaluating Screening Impact in Community Settings

• Evaluating the UK Breast Screening Programme: Choice of Study Design and the Practical Realities of Evaluating Service Screening —Louise Johns, M.Sc. (179 KB)
• Breast Cancer Mortality in Copenhagen After Introduction of Mammography Screening —Anne Helene Olsen, Ph.D. (341 KB)
• Breast Cancer Mortality After Screening Mammography in Women Aged 40-69 in British Columbia —Andrew Coldman, Ph.D. (89 KB)
• A Population-Based Case-Cohort Study of the Outcomes of Screening Mammography Among Ontario Women 40-49 Years of Age —Lawrence Paszat, M.D., F.R.C.P.C. (35 KB)
• Modeled Estimates of the Effect of Screening —Kathy Cronin, Ph.D. (822 KB)

Cervical Cancer Surveillance

• Cervical Cancer Screening in Manitoba: Evaluating Cancer Risk, Pap Test Utilization, and Access —Kathleen Decker, B.Sc., M.H.S.A. (760 KB)
• What Happens When Organisation of Cervical Cancer Screening is Delayed or Stopped? —Elsebeth Lynge, M.Sc. (91 KB)
• Education of the General Public: HPV and Its Involvement in Cervical Carcinogenesis —Philip Davies, Ph.D. (518 KB)