Frequency and survival of delayed breast cancer diagnosis in women participating at screening mammography in the Netherlands: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although breast cancer screening programmes aim to enable early breast cancer detection, diagnostic delays still occur among participants. Limited information is available on the frequency and survival of women with a delay in breast cancer diagnosis within the screening population. We determined the frequency of various types of delay in breast cancer diagnosis at screening mammography and specified the tumour characteristics, surgical therapy and survival rates of women with these delayed diagnoses, as well as variations in their proportions over time.

Methods

We included 901,133 screening examinations obtained in the southern Netherlands between 1999 and 2019. Screening mammograms of women with interval cancers (ICs) and breast cancers detected at subsequent sc

SUBMITTER: Duijm LEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12662070 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature