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BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020

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Release Date: 08 Oct 2020
Topic: Cancer screening

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 27 March 2023. doi:10.25816/0hv9-5e46

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55% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2017–2018, 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 40 deaths per 100,000 women in 2018.

  • ISBN: 978-1-76054-746-2
  • DOI: Link to DOI: 10.25816/0hv9-5e46
  • Cat. no: CAN 135
  • Pages: 152
Findings from this report:
  • In 2017–2018, more than 1.8 million women participated in breast screening. This was 55% of women aged 50–74

  • In 2016, breast cancer was the most common cancer affecting women, with 330 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74

  • In 2018, 59% of cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for women aged
    50–74 were small (≤15 mm)

  • In 2016, of all invasive breast cancer cases in women aged 50–74, 51% were detected through BreastScreen Australia

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Last updated 23/09/2020 v7.0

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