Cancer screening

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	564066
Registration status:	Health, Standard 29/08/2014
Definition:	Population-based cancer screening involves testing for signs of cancer in people who do not have any obvious symptoms of the disease. In Australia, there are currently three national screening programs, BreastScreen Australia, National Cervical Cancer Screening Program (NCSP) and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP).

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Bowel cancer screening test cluster Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Cancer screening test result Health, Standard 29/08/2014 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2014-18 Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2018–19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Person—cancer screening test indicator, yes/no code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021 Person—cancer screening test result Health, Standard 29/08/2014 Person—cancer screening test result, bowel cancer code N[A] Health, Standard 29/08/2014 Person—cancer screening test type, bowel cancer code N Health, Standard 05/02/2021