Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide

Published April 2008

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This booklet is a simple guide to breast screening designed for anyone who works or takes an interest in the breast screening programme.

Booklet contents

• The NHS Breast Screening Programme
• What happens at a breast screening unit
• Breast cancer
• Key research in breast screening
• Breast awareness
• Directory

Order printed publications

• NHSBSP home page
• Programme publications
  • How to order publications
  • By screening area or topic
  • NHSBSP numbered order
  • Mammography equipment reports
  • Good practise guides
  • Primary Care publications
  • Cancer screening series
  • Audio & video resources
  • Leaflets & booklets
  • Network newsletters
  • Archived publications
• About breast screening
  • What is breast screening?
  • What does the NHS Breast Screening Programme do?
  • When was the NHS Breast Screening Programme set up?
  • Why are not women under 50 routinely invited?
  • Are women screened over the age of 70?
  • Does breast screening save lives?
  • What is the key research in breast screening?
• Future developments in
  breast screening
• About breast cancer
  • Information about breast cancer
  • Being breast aware
  • How do we deal with benign breast disease?
  • What is DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ)?
  • Diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposed women and breast screening
• Programme logistics
  • How is the programme organised?
  • How much does the programme cost?
  • Quality assurance within the NHS Breast Screening Programme
  • NHS Breast Screening: Training centres
  • Use of patient information
• Frequently asked questions
• Programme statistics
• Mammography equipment reports
• Programme news index
• Useful links
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