Information / Resources
Please download the BreastScreen WA Resource Order Form for a list of BreastScreen WA resources available to order and either:
- Fax your completed order form to (08) 9323 6787
- Phone your order through to the BreastScreen WA resource order line on (08) 9323 6762
- Email your order to breastscreenwa@health.wa.gov.au
Resource order forms
Please note: resources will only be posted to people living in Western Australia.
- BreastScreen WA Resource Order Form (PDF)
- BreastScreen WA GP Resource Order Form (PDF)
- Fact sheet 6 – BreastScreen WA Aboriginal Resource order form (PDF)
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. |
- A guide to breast health brochure (PDF) Information for women with intellectual disabilities
- BreastScreen WA clinic maps (PDF)
- Have a FREE screening mammogram – Helping you make an informed choice (PDF)
- BreastScreen WA invites you to have a free screening mammogram (PDF)
- Regular breast X-rays save lives! (PDF 810KB) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resource
- It’s time for your next screening mammogram – Once is not enough (PDF)
- Screening mammography for women with a family history of breast cancer (PDF)
This resource is available in 32 languages other than English including:Screening mammography for women with a family history of breast cancer - alternative languages: 
Indonesian (PDF)
Serbian (PDF)
Arabic (PDF)
Italian (PDF)
Sinhalese (PDF)
Burmese (PDF)
Japanese (PDF)
Somali (PDF)
Bosnian (PDF)
Khmer (PDF)
Spanish (PDF)
Chinese (PDF)
Korean (PDF)
Swahili (PDF)
Croatian (PDF)
Macedonian (PDF)
Tagalog (PDF)
Dari (PDF)
Malay (PDF)
Tamil (PDF)
Dutch (PDF)
Maltese (PDF)
Thai (PDF)
Farsi (PDF)
Polish (PDF)
Tigrigna (PDF)
French (PDF)
Portuguese (PDF)
Vietnamese (PDF)
Greek (PDF)
Russian (PDF)
- Screening mammography for women with implants (PDF)
- A quality service for rural women – BreastScreen WA in rural communities (PDF)
- Information on access for women with disabilities (PDF)
- Information on screening mammography for women under 40 years of age (PDF)
- After 70 should I have screening mammograms? (PDF)
- If you have a complaint about BreastScreen WA there are people that can help (PDF)
- Our commitment to you… your comments are appreciated (PDF 161KB)
- After your screening mammogram, what next? (English) (PDF)
This resource is available in 15 languages other than English including:After your mammogram, what next? - alternative languages: Arabic (PDF) Indonesian (PDF) Serbian (PDF) Bosnian (PDF) Italian (PDF) Spanish (PDF) Chinese (PDF) Macedonian (PDF) Thai (PDF) Croatian (PDF) Malay (PDF) Vietnamese (PDF) Dari (PDF) Polish (PDF) Greek (PDF) Portuguese (PDF)
- Further tests – What does this mean? (PDF)
- BreastScreen WA Breast Assessment Centres (PDF)
- Breast cancer – How much do you know? (PDF)
- Breast pain – Want to know more? (PDF)
- Screening mammograms and their radiation risks (PDF)
- Use of your personal information and data (PDF)
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. |
- Fact sheet – Breast screening information (English) (PDF)
This resource is available in 29 languages other than English including:Breast screening information fact sheet - alternative languages: 
Amharic (PDF) Greek (PDF) Portuguese (PDF) Arabic (PDF) Indonesian (PDF) Serbian (PDF) Bosnian (PDF) Italian (PDF) Somali (PDF) Burmese (PDF) Japanese (PDF) Spanish (PDF) Chinese (PDF) Khmer (PDF) Swahili (PDF) Croatian (PDF) Korean (PDF) Tagalog (PDF) Dari (PDF) Macedonian (PDF) Thai (PDF) Dutch (PDF) Malay (PDF) Tigrigna (PDF) Farsi (PDF) Maltese (PDF) Vietnamese (PDF) French (PDF) Polish (PDF)
- Fact Sheet 1 – Breast cancer and screening mammography (PDF)
- Fact sheet 2 – BreastScreen WA corporate history (PDF)
- Fact sheet 3 – Information for GPs (PDF)
- Fact sheet 9 – Information for GPs: BreastScreen WA family history guidelines (PDF)
- Fact sheet 10 – Information for women: core biopsy and fine needle aspiration (PDF)
- Fact sheet 11 – Information for women: breast cysts (PDF)
- Fact sheet 12 – Information for women: modifiable lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer (PDF)
- Useful Australian websites for students (PDF)
- What is breast assessment? Further tests information fact sheet (English) (PDF)
This resource is available in 10 languages other than English including:What is breast assessment? Further tests information fact sheet - alternative languages: Arabic (PDF 100KB) Italian (PDF 53KB) Spanish (PDF 50KB) Chinese (PDF 78KB) Macedonian (PDF 65KB) Vietnamese (PDF 106KB) Farsi (PDF 121KB) Malay (PDF 51KB) Indonesian (PDF 42KB) Serbian (PDF 96KB)
Key facts on breast cancer (NBCC)
See the fact sheets about the incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence, mammographic screening, hospital treatment, and expenditure.
Commercial tests for breast cancer
- Information about commercial tests for breast cancer - Summary (PDF 62KB)
- Statement on use of thermography to detect breast cancer (PDF 53KB)
- National Horizon Scanning Unit Emerging Technology Bulletin, February 2009 (PDF)
Over-diagnosis from mammography screening
2008 NBOCC position statement.
Created: January 2008
Updated: September 2010
Developed by National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC).
Endorsed by the Cancer Institute NSW and The Cancer Council Australia.
Summary statementMammography screening significantly reduces death rates from breast cancer by enabling earlier and more effective treatment. Most breast cancers found through screening are progressive and would become symptomatic within the women’s lifetime if left untreated. It is likely, however, that there is a sub-set that would be non-progressive or progress so slowly that they would not otherwise be found in a woman’s lifetime. Estimates of the size of this sub-set vary widely and are dependent on study design and research assumptions. While a range of 5% to 13% of all breast carcinomas was cited in the first position statement of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre as a plausible estimate of levels of over-diagnosis, publications since then have provided such widely varying estimates that a summary pooled estimate cannot be derived with any confidence. Research is underway, including molecular and genetic research, to find means of identifying cancers at minimal risk of progression. |
For complete article with references, please go to NBOCC website.
Posters
- BreastScreen WA is the only accredited FREE screening mammography service in WA A3 poster (PDF)
- Women 50 years or over have a FREE screening mammogram Metropolitan A4 poster (PDF)
- Women 50 years or over have a FREE screening mammogram Metropolitan A3 poster (PDF 182KB)
- Regular breast X-rays save lives! A3 poster (PDF) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resource
- Women 50 years or over have a FREE screening mammogram Rural A4 poster (PDF)
- Women 50 years or over have a FREE screening mammogram Rural A3 poster (PDF)
- When did you last have a FREE screening mammogram? Once is not enough A4 poster (PDF)
Miscellaneous items
- The Little Pink Book (PDF)
- Women’s Health Check Card (PDF)
- GP Referral Pad (PDF)
- Appointment card (PDF)
- A guide to breast health (PDF) Information for women with intellectual disabilities
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.
