Evaluation of breast cancer screening programmes: Candidate performance indicators and their association with breast cancer mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Evaluation of a breast cancer (BC) screening programme is necessary to ensure its quality. Performance measurements might be prioritized considering the association with outcomes related to BC mortality. We piloted an approach to explore the association of selected performance measurements with incidence-based BC mortality (IBM).

Methods

We performed an ecological analysis of aggregated data from regional or national population-based cancer registries and BC screening programmes in Europe, using 13 performance indicators. We built a panel data (longitudinal cross-sectional) regression model to estimate the association between screening performance measurements and IBM rates.

Results

We included data of 9 programmes and registries from Italy, Spain, Norway, Ireland

SUBMITTER: Canelo-Aybar C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12683141 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature