Screening guidelines detail all the information about screening for diseases – how, when and what diseases to screen for. Each of the groups producing the guidelines do not always come to exactly the same conclusion, but are often very similar. Two major guidelines in Australia are the one produced by the Cancer Council, and one produced by the Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group (WACOG).
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