Disability and participation in breast and bowel cancer screening in England: a large prospective study

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Authors

for the Million Women Study Collaborators · University of Oxford

Sarah Floud · University of Oxford

Isobel Barnes · Great Ormond Street Hospital

Maximiliane Verfürden · Great Ormond Street Hospital

Hannah Kuper · University of Oxford

Toral Gathani · John Radcliffe Hospital

R G Blanks ·

Abstract

Participation in routine cancer screening programmes in England is reduced in people with disabilities and participation varies by type of disability.

Topics & Keywords

Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Publication Details

Published in: British Journal of Cancer

Volume 117, Issue 11, pp. 1711-1714

DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2017.331

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