The purpose of the screening programme is to
- find cancer at an early stage, which is when treatment has the best chance of leading to a cure
- reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women. It affects up to 1 in 9 women over their lifetime. Find out more about breast cancer.
- are age 45–69 years
- have no symptoms of breast cancer
- have not had a mammogram in the past 12 months
- are not pregnant or breastfeeding
Screening doesn’t stop you getting breast cancer but it does reduce your chance of dying from it.
- The risk of dying from breast cancer is reduce by about a third in women who are screened compared with women who have not screene.
- Your risk is reduce even more if you have regular breast screening.
There are a couple of downsides to breast screening:
- Screening may not pick up all breast cancers.
- It can lead to over-treatment of lesions that may not become life-threatening.
However, the benefits of breast screening outweigh the downsides. Breast screening saves lives.
The screening done using a mammogram. A mammogram is a low-dose X-ray of your breast tissue to look for any early signs of breast cancer. It can show คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย changes and abnormalities in your breasts before anything can be seen or felt.
A mammogram is the best available test to detect small cancers at an early stage. Catching cancers early means there is a very good chance of successful treatment.
- Screening mammograms can’t prevent development of breast cancer. But thought to reduce the chance of dying from breast cancer by about a third.
- Mammograms most useful in women aged 50 years and over if done every 2 years.
- They can detect 8 to 9 out of 10 unsuspected breast cancers in women aged 45 to 69.
- Mammograms safe because only very small amounts of radiation use in 2-yearly screenings.