Our Six Strategic Directions - Healthy Workforce • Healthy Hospitals • Healthy Partnerships • Healthy Communities • Healthy Resources • Healthy Leadership

Search:

  
Delivering a Healthy WA
BreastScreen WA Logo For a FREE screening mammogram appointment phone
13 20 50

Information / Resources

Please download the BreastScreen WA Resource Order Form for a list of BreastScreen WA resources available to order and either:

Resource order forms

Please note: resources will only be posted to people living in Western Australia.

Brochures and flyers

These brochures and flyers are available in alternative formats such as; audiotape, large print, or braille, on request from a person with a disability. Email your request to breastscreenwa@health.wa.gov.au.

Fact sheets

These fact sheets are available in alternative formats such as; audiotape, large print, or braille, on request from a person with a disability. Email your request to breastscreenwa@health.wa.gov.au.

Key facts on breast cancer (NBCC)

See the fact sheets about the incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence, mammographic screening, hospital treatment, and expenditure.

New and emerging technologies for breast cancer detection

National Horizon Scanning Unit Emerging Technology Bulletin, February 2009 (external PDF)

Over-diagnosis from mammography screening

January 2008 NBCC position statement.

Developed by National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC).
Endorsed by the Cancer Institute NSW and The Cancer Council Australia.
Based on published evidence to October 2007.

Summary statement

Mammography screening significantly reduces death rates from breast cancer by enabling earlier and more effective treatment.

The vast majority of breast cancers found through screening are progressive lesions that would become symptomatic within the woman’s lifetime if left untreated.  It is likely, however, that there is a sub-set of cancers that may be non-progressive or progress so slowly, that they would not have been otherwise found in the woman’s lifetime.  Diagnosis of these cancers has been referred to as ‘overdiagnosis’ and their treatment as ‘overtreatment’.

Estimates of the size of this sub-set vary widely and are dependent on a range of assumptions as we do not know what the incidence of breast cancer would be today without the introduction of the BreastScreen Australia program.

Research is underway, including molecular and genetic research, to find means of identifying this sub-set of cancers.

For complete article with references, please go to NBCC website.

Posters

Miscellaneous items

File Formats

Some documents for download on this website are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read these files you might need to download Adobe® Acrobat Reader.

Get Adobe® Reader
General Information:ChineseCroationIndonesianItalianMacedonianMalaySerbianSpanishVietnamese