Screening for Breast Cancer in England: Past and Future
Published February 2006 | ISBN 1 84463 026 9
The NHS Breast Screening Programme began in 1988. This document traces the history of the programme, its influence upon healthcare and its development through evidence based practice to the present day where it now screens 1.3 million women each year and diagnoses about 10,000 breast cancers annually.
- NHSBSP home page
- Programme 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?
- What happens at a breast screening unit?
- Why are women under 50 not routinely invited?
- Are women screened over the age of 70?
- Does breast screening save lives?
- Does breast screening have any risks?
- What is Digital Mammography?
- Research in breast screening
- About breast cancer
- Programme logistics
- Frequently asked questions
- Programme statistics
- Mammography equipment reports
- Programme news index
- Useful links