The number of women who would need to be screened regularly by mammography to prevent one death from breast cancer

Author:

Beral Valerie1,Alexander Maggie2,Duffy Stephen3,Ellis Ian O4,Given-Wilson Rosalind5,Holmberg Lars6,Moss Sue M7,Ramirez Amanda8,Reed Malcolm W R9,Rubin Caroline10,Whelehan Patsy11,Wilson Robin12,Young Kenneth C13

Affiliation:

1. Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF

2. Director of Policy and Campaigns, Breakthough Breast Cancer, London

3. Professor of Cancer Screening, Centre for Cancer Prevention, Queen Mary University of London, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ

4. Proferssor of Cancer Pathology, Dept Histopathology, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, Hucknall Rd, Nottingham NG5 1PB

5. Medical Director and Consultant Radiologist, St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust, London

6. Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, King's College, London

7. Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Centre for Cancer Prevention, Queen Mary University of London, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ

8. Professor and Director, King's College London Promoting Early Presentation Group, National Clinical Lead for Cancer Patient Information, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London

9. Professor of Surgical Oncology, University of Sheffield, The Medical School, Sheffield, S10 2RX

10. Consultant Radiologist, University Hospital Southhampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, Hants SO16 6YD

11. Senior Research Radiographer, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DDI 9SY

12. Consultant Radiologist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London

13. Professor of Medical Physics, National Co-ordinating Centre for the Physics of Mammography, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford GU2 7XX

Abstract

The number of women who would need to be screened regularly by mammography to prevent one death from breast cancer depends strongly on several factors, including the age at which regular screening starts, the period over which it continues, and the duration of follow-up after screening. Furthermore, more women would need to be INVITED for screening than would need to be SCREENED to prevent one death, since not all women invited attend for screening or are screened regularly. Failure to consider these important factors accounts for many of the major discrepancies between different published estimates. The randomised evidence indicates that, in high income countries, around one breast cancer death would be prevented in the long term for every 400 women aged 50–70 years regularly screened over a ten-year period.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy

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