Some, often with a financial interest, even note that screening increases the five-year survival rate, which is true.

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Since routine screening was introduced in 1989, the death rate through cervical cancer has dropped by a third.

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She said the trust had commissioned another independent review of the screening and the screening programme still had an "excellent detection rate".

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Good screening programmes in the Bahamas have helped to slow the infection rate, and drug treatments there and in Barbados that help to prevent pregnant mothers passing the disease to their children have been copied elsewhere.

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Better detection methods, including an increase in screening, mean that more cancers are found early and the survival rate is now better than ever.

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The Army, for instance, introduced new screening and treatment for post-traumatic stress and brain injuries, in response to a suicide rate that began rising in 2005.

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