BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2018

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Release Date: 02 Oct 2018

Topic: Cancer screening

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2018) BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2018, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 17 April 2024.

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Around 55% of women in the targeted age group of 50–74 participated in the BreastScreen Australia in 2015–2016 with more than 1.7 million screening. Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began from 74 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74 in 1991 to 44 deaths per 100,000 women in 2015.

ISSN: 2205-4855 (PDF) 1039-3307 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-420-1
Cat. no: CAN 116
Pages: 109

Findings from this report:

In 2015–2016, more than 1.7 million women participated in breast screening. This was 55% of women aged 50–74.
In 2014, breast cancer was the most common cancer affecting women, with 326 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74
In 2016, 59% of cancers detected through BreastScreen Australia for women aged 50–74 were small (≤ 15 mm)
In 2015, the mortality rate from breast cancer was 45 deaths per 100,000 women aged 50–74

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Preliminary material: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations

Summary

Data at a glance

1 Introduction

1.1 Breast cancer
1.2 Age is the greatest risk factor for breast cancer
1.3 Screening can detect breast cancer early
1.4 Screening mammography decreases morbidity and mortality from breast cancer

2 Women aged 50–74 now targeted by BreastScreen Australia

2.1 Reporting women aged 50–74

3 Monitoring BreastScreen Australia using program data

3.1 Screening behaviour
3.2 Sensitivity of the screening test
3.3 Detection of invasive breast cancer andductal carcinoma in situ

4 Key breast cancer outcomes

4.1 Incidence of breast cancer
4.2 Incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ
4.3 Survival after a diagnosis of breast cancer
4.4 Prevalence of breast cancer
4.5 Mortality from breast cancer
4.6 Burden of breast cancer

5 Participation in BreastScreen Australia and breast cancer outcomes in Indigenous women

5.1 Participation in BreastScreen Australia in Indigenous women
5.2 Breast cancer outcomes in Indigenous women

6 Monitoring other aspects of BreastScreen Australia

6.1 Expenditure on BreastScreen Australia

Appendix A: Supporting data tables

A1 Participation
A2 Rescreening
A3 Recall to assessment
A4 Invasive breast cancer detection
A5 Ductal carcinoma in situ detection
A6a Interval cancers
A6b Program sensitivity
A7a Invasive breast cancer incidence
A7b Ductal carcinoma in situ incidence
A8 Mortality from breast cancer

Appendix B: BreastScreen Australia information

Performance indicators
National Accreditation Standards (NAS) Measures

Appendix C: Data sources

State and territory BreastScreen registers
AIHW Australian Cancer Database
AIHW National Mortality Database
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths
ABS population data
Australian Burden of Disease Study 2011

Appendix D: Classifications

Age
State or territory
Remoteness area
Socioeconomic group
Classification of invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ

Appendix E: Statistical methods

Comparisons and tests of statistical significance
Crude rates
Age-specific rates
Age standardised rates
Confidence intervals
Interpretation of confidence intervals

End matter: Glossary; References; List of tables; List of figures; List of boxes; Related publications

Supplementary online data tables