Effectiveness of a small breast screening programme: 25 year evaluation (25 year breast screening evaluation).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate mammography screening quality on the Island of Jersey over a 25-year period from Jan 1990 to end March 2015 from females invited between ages 50 to 75 using a 2 yearly screening interval. Jersey had a population of only around 67,000 at onset, rising to around 100,000 at the end of the 25 years.

Methods

An analysis was performed of key routinely collected measures that are important to determining if a screening programme is on course to reduce breast cancer mortality such as uptake, recall rates, screen detected cancer and interval cancer rates. Further supporting indicators including grade, stage and comparative deaths from breast cancer in screen detected and not screen detected females were also assessed.

Results

Over the 25-year period 19,76

SUBMITTER: Nisbet AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592412 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature