Effectiveness of screening for neuroblastoma
14 Abril 2008
A japanese group has published a retrospective evaluation of neuroblastoma mass-screening program that was performed between 1984 and 2003. They reported that this program was effective for more neuroblastoma diagnosis and less mortality, suggesting that previous accounts that it did not affect patients mortality were not true. These results indicate that neuroblastoma mass-screening with quantitative methods can effectively diminish the diagnosis of late-stage disease and help reduce mortality in children with this disease. Read the article here.