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BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2000-2001
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Topic: Cancer screening
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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2003) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2000-2001, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 14 July 2026.
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The BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2000–2001 presents the latest national statistics in the monitoring of BreastScreen Australia, which aims to reduce illness and death resulting from breast cancer through organised screening to detect cases of unsuspected breast cancer in women, thus enabling early intervention.
- ISSN: 1039 3307
- ISBN: 978 1 74024 348 3
- Cat. no: CAN 20
- Pages: 131
Findings from this report:
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In 2000–2001, 1,567,544 women participated in BreastScreen Australia
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Between the periods 1999–2000 and 2000–2001 the participation rate in the target population rose from 55.9% to 56.9%
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In 2001, 65% of all invasive breast cancers detected by BreastScreen Australia were small-diameter cancers
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In 2001, for women aged 50–69, the age-standardised rate of small-diameter invasive cancer detected was 29 per 10,000