Post on 07-Aug-2015
BreastScreen VictoriaOverview of BreastScreen ProgramClient recruitment and community education
Risk factors for breast cancer
Overview of BreastScreen Program
• Background on Population Health Screening
• BreastScreen Australia
• BreastScreen Victoria Program
Where can women screen
Eligibility
Results
Population screening…
Set criteria by World Health Organisation with a principle that ‘programs do more good than harm’ at a reasonable cost.
Geneva Switzerland
World Health Organisation Principles
• Aim to increase detection and reduce the impact of disease by testing a healthy population
• There must be a good chance that subsequent treatment can increase survival from the disease
• Australia uses modified WHO principles to guide screening programs
• Acceptable screening test repeated at intervals
Evidence for a population screening program for breast cancer
• studies and randomised controlled trials over 20 years in 4 countries
• first mammography programs 1987 - Iceland and Sweden
• now standard in many western countries - U.S.A, Canada, U.K., Israel, France, Germany and Switzerland.
BreastScreen Australia – a population screening program for breast cancer
• BreastScreen Australia established 1991
• Joint funding state/territory and Commonwealth
• State/territory implementation, local services manage
• National Accreditation Standards
BreastScreen Australia
GoalTo reduce breastcancer mortalityby 30% throughearly detection
AimTo screen 70% of women in the 50 to 69 age group
CANCER IN VICTORIA: Statistics and trends 2010Victorian Cancer Registry, Cancer Council Victoria 2011, pg 37
BreastScreen Victoria – The facts
• Free breast cancer screening program
• Asymptomatic women aged between 50-*69
• GP referral not required
• Female radiographers
* In May 2013 the Commonwealth Government announced an extension to the target age range to 50-74. This
will be rolled out over the coming months
Recommendations for Breast Screening
• Recruitment strategies target 50-69 year olds
• All women over 40 are eligible
• Every 2 years
• Complements Breast Awareness
BreastScreen program
Why women aged 50 to 69?
• Evidence shows breast screening reduces the most deaths in this age group
• mammograms most effective screening method for finding early breast cancer in this age group
• 52% of breast cancers found in Victoria women 50-69
• women in 40s and over 70 still at risk
How do women join BreastScreen?
• electoral roll invitation
• spontaneous appointment
• rescreen invitation