The National Health Service Breast Screening Programme set up 20 years ago in the UK has to evolve continuously to meet changing needs as a result of fundamental transformations in the age and ethnic profile of the population. This article draws on evidence generated as part of the Healthcare ...
The positive predictive value (PPV) of recall for assessment was consistently higher in the older age-group. For women previously screened within 5 years, the PPV for all cancers for women 65–69 was 29.0% compared to 15.6% for women 50–64. For women with a longer screening interval the...
Apart from high-risk scenarios such as the presence of highly penetrant genetic mutations, breast screening typically comprises mammography or tomosynthesis strategies defined by age. However, age-based screening ignores the range of breast cancer risks that individual women may possess and is antithetica...
Objective The USPSTF commissioned a systematic review to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of different mammography-based breast cancer screening strategies by age to start and stop screening, screening interval, modality, use of supplemental imaging, or personalization of screening for breast cancer on...
This might include moving from a one-size-fits-all strategy, a universal approach with the same screening interval and screening technique for all women within a defined age range [9], to recommendations determining interval, techniques, and age range according to the women’s individual risk of...
This guideline updates the American Cancer Society breast cancer screening recommendations for women at average risk for breast cancer.
A quantitative analysis has been performed to predict the benefit:risk ratio and associated mortality reduction for the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme. The analysis is based on the results of an established biological simulation method coupled with dosimetric information and populatio...
1South East Scotland Breast Screening, Edinburgh, UK Breast Cancer Research 25(S1): P6 Aim: We performed a pilot study with wireless localisations using Saviscout reflector at our screening centre. This was done to establish the benefit of localisations at assessments to improve patient pathway....
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Putting together benefit and overdiagnosis from the above figures, the panel estimates that for 10 000 UK women invited to screening from age 50 for 20 years, about 681 cancers will be found of which 129 will represent overdiagnosis, and 43 deaths from breast cancer will be prevented. In ...