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 ...
For every 400 women screened regularly by the NHSBSP over a 10-year period, one woman fewer will die from breast cancer than would have died without screening. The current NHSBSP saves an estimated 1400 lives each year in England. The screening programme spends about 23000 for every year of...
In England, a national breast screening programme, the NHSBSP, has been in place since 1988, and assessment of the impact of the programme using observational studies is needed. Objective. The Policy Research Unit in Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis has a remit to address the ...
MRI of the breast is increasingly used for the assessment and local staging of breast cancer as well for the screening of very-high-risk patients in the NHS breast screening programme. A dynamic contrast-enhanced protocol is used as well as other sequences. These sequences assess the inherent...
1Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2Dept of Radiology, St Georges University Hospital Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; 3Breast Screening Programme, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom; 4Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Biomedic...
Effect of NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales, 1990-8: comparison of observed with predicted mortality Objective To assess the impact of the NHS breast screening programme on mortality from breast cancer in women aged 55-69 years over the period 199...
Fine needle aspiration cytology in the UK breast screening programme: A national audit of results. Breast 1999;8:261-266.Wells CA, Perera R,White FE, Domizio P. Fine needle aspiration cytology in the UK breast screening programme: a national audit of results. The Breast 1999;8:261-6....
A national notification risk assessment and screening programme (NRASP) for women who were treated with SRT before the age of 36 years was instituted in the United Kingdom in 2003. In this study, we report the implementation and screening results from the largest English Cancer Network.A total...
Aim-To define the biological nature and malignant potential of interval cancers presenting to a breast unit within the NHS breast screening programme. Methods-112 interval cancers were com- Pared with matched, screen detected and Symptomatic cancers in terms of their Radiographic, histopathological, and...
the Sloane project, a national audit of women with noninvasive neoplasia within the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (REF 08/S0703/147, 19/LO/0648), median follow up 5.3 years26. (2) the Dutch DCIS cohort study, a nationwide, population-based patient cohort derived ...