North of Scotland Breast Screening CentreRaigmore Hospital NHS TrustEntwistleNorth of Scotland Breast Screening CentreRaigmore Hospital NHS TrustJournal of medical screeningHendry PJ, Entwistle C. Effect of issuing an invitation for breast cancer screening to women aged 65-69. J Med Screen 1996; 3: ...
This constitutes 1 24% of the breast screening population attending the North East Scotland NHSBSP. For each woman identified to be at high risk, we have found 1-87 female relatives between 50 and 64 years and 1-85 relatives under 50 years also to be at high risk. Around 78% of the ...
All women between 50 and 70 are invited to come along for screening once every three years as part of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme. Medical experts fear that some women are being put off attending because they’d rather not know whether or not they may have breast cancer – despit...
Dr Hilary Dobson, chair of EBCC-9's national organising committee and who is Clinical Lead of the West of Scotland Breast Screening Service and the Lead Clinician of the West of Scotland Cancer Advisory Network (WoSCAN), commented: "These findings from The Netherlands are important when consideri...
The proposed extension to the national programme will have considerable workforce implications for the NHSBSP and require additional resources. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign Keywords: breast cancer; screening; older women The effectiveness of breast screening in women aged 50–64 has been well ...
5Macquarie University Cancer Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 6Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 7University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK; 8Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden; 9Department of Cancer Prevention and Documentation, Danish Cancer Society, ...
Again from the Press release Professor Stephen Duffy, Cancer Research UKs professor of cancer screening, said: this large study means we can now say for certain that this system is as good at detecting breast cancer as the one used as standard practice Laboratory tests show promise for beating...
NHS Breast Screening Centres across Scotland. Those who volunteered for the ActWELL programme were divided into two groups, with 278 taking part in the lifestyle programme and a further 281 in a comparison group who received the standard care afforded to women attending routine breast screening. ...
However, as women are invited for screening at a younger age of 47 years, this may change (NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, 2009). Breast cancer incidence also appears to be increasing among ethnic minorities despite historically being lower than that among White groups (Farooq and Coleman, 2005...
1University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2Borders General Hospital, Melrose, Scotland, 3NHS Lothian Screening Service, Edinburgh, Scotland Breast Cancer Research 25(S1): P7 Background: Wire-guided localisation (WGL) has been the preferred method of localisation for non-palpable breast lesions....