Considerable hope, as well as a substantial degree of hype, has surrounded cancer-screening programmes, but current practices are suboptimal and are the subject of continued improvement efforts. In this Review, the authors discuss the experiences to date in screening for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, outline the lessons we have learned, and describe how this knowledge is informing improvements in cancer screening, with the hope they will eventually live up to the hype.
- Yiwey Shieh
- Martin Eklund
- Laura J. Esserman
