Breast Cancer Screening

Links to information about breast cancer screening procedures and programs.

Reviewed May 2007

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Links to information about mammography and mammograms to detect changes in breast tissue.

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Title:   Cancerscreening.gov.au
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Cancer Screening page provides information on the national screening programs for bowel cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer: Bowel Cancer Screening Program, BreastScreen Australia, and the National Cervical Screening Program.
Date:   Jul 2007

Title:   Breast cancer facts and figures
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Discover some fast facts about breast cancer.
Date:   Jan 2007

Title:   Breast cancer: early diagnosis is the key
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   The good news is that with advances in treatment and diagnosis, more women are surviving breast cancer than ever before.
Date:   Jun 2006

Title:   BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2002 - 2003
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   This is the seventh annual report based on key program activity, performance and outcome indicators to monitor the achievements of the BreastScreen Australia Program.
Date:   May 2006

Title:   Regular self-examination or clinical examination for early detection of breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Breast self-examination or clinical breast examination by a doctor or a nurse have been promoted for many years as screening methods to diagnose breast cancer at an earlier stage in order to decrease the risk of dying from breast cancer. The review of d...
Date:   Feb 2003

Title:   BreastScreen Australia achievement report 1997 and 1998
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   Describes comprehensive, national data on breast cancer screening in Australia. Features include information about program activities and performance indicators for 1997 and 1998.
Date:   Oct 2001

Title:   Breast and cervical cancer screening in Australia 1996-1997
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   An extensive report summarising data from two hospital data collections maintained by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Statistics are presented on the resources, expenditure and revenue of public hospitals and on the services they provide as well as on characteristics and hospital care of admitted patients in both public and private hospitals. Also includes information on hospital performance indicators and analysis using the AN-DRG (casemix) classification.
Date:   Oct 2001

Title:   Strategies for increasing the participation of women in community breast cancer screening
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Screening aims to identify people who might have a disease, by testing a group of people for signs of disease. Breast cancer screening with mammography has focused on women aged 50 to 69 years. The review of trials found that a letter of invitation, mai...
Date:   Oct 2000
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