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BreastScreen Australia, achievement report 1997 and 1998

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Release Date: 11 Sep 2000
Topic: Cancer
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2000) BreastScreen Australia, achievement report 1997 and 1998, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 10 August 2022.

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Describes comprehensive, national data on breast cancer screening in Australia. Features include information about BreastScreen Australia Program activities and performance indicators for 1997 and 1998. This second national report is a joint production by BreastScreen Australia, the AIHW, and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.

  • ISSN: 1307 3307
  • ISBN: 978 1 74024 041 3
  • Cat. no: CAN 8
  • Pages: 96
Findings from this report:
  • In 1997 and 1998, over one and a quarter million Australian women were screened by BreastScreen Australia

  • The number of new cases of breast cancer in women aged 50–69 increased since the early 1990s

  • The crude small cancer detection rate in 1998 was higher than the National Accreditation Requirements standard

  • The detection rate for women attending the Program for the first time in 1998 was 48 per 10,000 women screened

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