BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 26 April 2024. doi:10.25816/btjk-3q46
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021. Canberra: AIHW. doi:10.25816/btjk-3q46
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021. AIHW, 2021. doi:10.25816/btjk-3q46
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021. Canberra: AIHW; 2021. doi:10.25816/btjk-3q46
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2021, AIHW, Canberra. doi:10.25816/btjk-3q46
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55% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2018–2019, with around 1.9 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 2019.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-893-3
- DOI: 10.25816/btjk-3q46
- Cat. no: CAN 140
- Pages: 130
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In 2018–2019, around 1.9 million women participated in the BreastScreen Australia. This was 55% of women aged 50–74
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In 2017, breast cancer was the most common cancer affecting Australian women, 325 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74
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In 2019, 60% of breast cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for women aged 50–74 were small
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In 2017, of all breast cancer cases in women aged 50–74, 50% were detected through BreastScreen Australia