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BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019
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Topic: Cancer screening
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 September 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019. AIHW, 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2019, AIHW, Canberra.
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55% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2016–2017, with more than 1.8 million screening.
Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began, from 74 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74 in 1991, to 41 deaths per 100,000 women in 2017.
- ISSN: 2205-4855 (Online)
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-624-3 (Online)
- Cat. no: CAN 128
- Pages: 112
Findings from this report:
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In 2017, 59% of cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for women aged 50–74 were small (≤15 mm)
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In 2016–2017, more than 1.8 million women participated in breast screening. This was 55% of women aged 50–74
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In 2017, the mortality rate from breast cancer was 42 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74
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In 2015, 10,400 women aged 50–74 were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer