Effect of population breast screening on breast cancer mortality up to 2005 in England and Wales: an individual-level cohort study

• Published in: British journal of cancer Vol. 116; no. 2; pp. 246 - 252
• Main Authors: Johns, Louise E, Coleman, Derek A, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Moss, Susan M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.01.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/67/1347; 692/699/67/2322; 692/699/67/2324; 692/700/478/2772; Adult; Aged; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - mortality; Cancer Research; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Drug Resistance; Early Detection of Cancer - methods; England - epidemiology; Epidemiology; Female; Humans; Mammography; Mass Screening - methods; Medical research; Middle Aged; Molecular Medicine; Mortality; Oncology; Population; Socioeconomic factors; Wales - epidemiology; Womens health; United Kingdom > UK; England; Wales; evaluation; mortality; individual-level; breast cancer; incidence-based mortality; population screening

Background: Population breast screening has been implemented in the UK for over 25 years, but the size of benefit attributable to such programmes remains controversial. We have conducted the first individual-based cohort evaluation of population breast screening in the UK, to estimate the impact of...