General practitioners and cancer

[...]the attitudes of general practitioners and practice nurses to breast screening are critical in influencing women to attend, and practice administrative staff are key in maintaining accurate patient notification lists. 2 In the French screening programme for colorectal cancer the involvement of primary care clinicians has been shown significantly to increase patient participation rates in faecal occult blood testing. 3 Patients often do not understand the rationale for screening or the inevitability of some false positive and false negative results.