The NHS Breast Screening Programme is evidence-based. Where aspects of it needed further investigation, research trials were set up. Details of the key research used to inform the programme are below.
- Absolute numbers of lives saved and overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening
- Age at which women are screened
- Age Extension Pilot Study (including FAQs)
- Age trial
- All Breast Cancer Report
- ALMANAC trial (opens in separate window)
- Case-control study of the impact of the East Anglian breast screening programme on breast cancer mortality (opens in separate window)
- Computer-aided diagnosis in breast screening
- DCIS: The Sloane Project (a prospective audit)
- DMIST
- Effects of deodorants on mammographic films
- Family History Study (FH01)
- Frequency trial
- Increasing Attendance at Breast Cancer Screening: Field Trial ( March 2007) (PDF 349Kb)
- ScHARR Initial Assessment of Age Extension Report
- Intervention to Increase Breast Screening Uptake (March 2002)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Breast Screening (MARIBS)
- Million women study
- New ways of working in the NHS Breast Screening Programme
- Out Of Hours Study (OOHS)
- Over 65s pilot
- Prevention trial (IBIS)
- Small invasives trial
- Tomosynthesis trial
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