Steffie Naber from the Department of Public Health in Rotterdam successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled: “Reducing Harms and Increasing Benefits of Screening for Cervical Cancer and Colorectal Cancer – A Model-based Approach” on April 19.
Several studies are included in which mathematical modeling has been used to assess the harms, benefits, and harm-benefit ratio of different screening strategies for the early detection of cervical cancer and colorectal cancer.