scholarly journals Absolute Numbers of Lives Saved and Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screening, From a Randomized Trial and from the Breast Screening Programme in England

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-106
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening ◽  
Breast Screening ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Breast Screening Programme

scholarly journals Increased breast cancer screening and downstaging in C olombian women: A randomized trial of opportunistic breast‐screening

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl Murillo ◽  
Sandra Díaz ◽  
Fernando Perry ◽  
César Poveda ◽  
Marion Piñeros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening ◽  
Breast Screening

Effect of Issuing an Invitation for Breast Cancer Screening to Women Aged 65 to 69

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Hendry ◽  
C Entwistle
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening ◽  
Cancer Detection ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Breast Screening Programme ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Practices ◽  
National Health Service Breast

Objective –Breast cancer screening is available to all women over 50 in the United Kingdom on the National Health Service breast screening programme. Only women aged between 50 and 64 receive a written invitation, with women over 64 being expected to self refer. Unfortunately, despite the higher incidence of breast cancer in the older age group only a very small proportion of women over 64 attend for screening. The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that women between the ages of 65 and 69 will attend for screening if invited. Method –Women aged 65 to 69 were invited for screening from general practices in the Inverness area and were treated in all respects as the usual screening age group. Results –An uptake of 76% was achieved with a cancer detection rate of 9.3 per thousand. Conclusion –These results lend weight to the suggestion that women in this age group should receive a specific invitation for breast cancer screening.

Compliance after 17 Years of Breast Cancer Screening

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Scaf-Klomp ◽  
F L P van Sonderen ◽  
R Stewart ◽  
J A A M van Dijck ◽  
W J A van den Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Breast Screening ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Breast Screening Programme ◽  
Screening Population ◽  
Strongly Regular

Objective –To investigate changes in attendance over the course of a population based breast screening programme. Design – Longitudinal; analysis of registered data over nine screening rounds. Setting –Subjects belong to the screening population of the Nijmegen experimental breast screening programme (1975–1990). Subjects –A cohort of 6898 women who were enrolled in 1975 at the age of 50–69 years and who were invited to nine subsequent screening rounds, irrespective of their attendance at previous rounds. Results –Attendance of women aged 50–53 years at entry was high at the initial screening (88%), decreased in the course of the programme, but remained well over 60% until round 8; 39% completed nine rounds and 24% completed seven to eight rounds. Attendance of women who were older at entry was somewhat lower at the initial screening (87%–82%) and declined more strongly. Regular compliance was also lower. Specific compliance patterns are found that can be relevant for further research. Conclusions –A substantial proportion of eligible women can be committed to mammography every two years, possibly even after reaching the age of 70, if the age at entry is around 50 and the screening programme is well established in the community. Starting a screening programme in older women seems ineffective.

scholarly journals Absolute Numbers of Lives Saved and Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screeninq, from a Randomized Trial and from the Breast Screening Programme in England

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W Duffy ◽  
Laszlo Tabar ◽  
Anne Helene Olsen ◽  
Bedrich Vitak ◽  
Prue C Allgood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Breast Screening ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Breast Screening Programme

scholarly journals Lower attendance rates in immigrant versus non-immigrant women in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer Bhargava ◽  
Kaitlyn Tsuruda ◽  
Kåre Moen ◽  
Ida Bukholm ◽  
Solveig Hofvind
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening ◽  
Screening Programme ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Mammographic Screening ◽  
Attendance Rates ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening Programme ◽  
Cancer Screening Programme

Objective The Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme invites women aged 50–69 to biennial mammographic screening. Although 84% of invited women have attended at least once, attendance rates vary across the country. We investigated attendance rates among various immigrant groups compared with non-immigrants in the programme. Methods There were 4,053,691 invitations sent to 885,979 women between 1996 and 2015. Using individual level population-based data from the Cancer Registry and Statistics Norway, we examined percent attendance and calculated incidence rate ratios, comparing immigrants with non-immigrants, using Poisson regression, following women's first invitation to the programme and for ever having attended. Results Immigrant women had lower attendance rates than the rest of the population, both following the first invitation (53.1% versus 76.1%) and for ever having attended (66.9% versus 86.4%). Differences in attendance rates between non-immigrant and immigrant women were less pronounced, but still present, when adjusted for sociodemographic factors. We also identified differences in attendance between immigrant groups. Attendance increased with duration of residency in Norway. A subgroup analysis of migrants' daughters showed that 70.0% attended following the first invitation, while 82.3% had ever attended. Conclusions Immigrant women had lower breast cancer screening attendance rates. The rationale for immigrant women's non-attendance needs to be explored through further studies targeting women from various birth countries and regions.

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