BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024
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AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2024) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 08 October 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2024). BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024. AIHW, 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024. Canberra: AIHW; 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2024, BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2024, AIHW, Canberra.
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50% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in BreastScreen Australia in 2021–2022, with over 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 37 deaths per 100,000 women in 2022.
- ISBN: 978-1-923272-12-5
- Cat. no: CAN 162
- Pages: 136
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In 2021–2022, over 1.8 million women participated in the BreastScreen Australia. This was 50% of women aged 50–74
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In 2020, breast cancer was the most common cancer in Australian women, with 307 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74
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In 2022, 58% of breast cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for participants aged 50–74 were small (≤15mm)
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In 2020, of all breast cancer cases in women aged 50–74, 46% were detected through BreastScreen Australia