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A Rodway

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PubMed1993

Side-effects of screening.

There has been a 42% increase in the number of mammograms performed outside the national screening programme (operating in Camberwell, southeast London) which was not anticipated in the Forrest Report, a document to the Health Ministers of the U.K. by a working group chaired by Sir Patrick Forrest. The report compiles recommendations on breast screening, using mammography and breast self-examination, to reduce the mortality in women aged 50-64 years. This 42% increase is attributable mainly to referrals from menopause clinics and general practitioners of patients mainly in the screening age group. When we looked at referrals from general practitioners, suspicious mammographic findings were reported in 20% of patients referred with a breast lump, in contrast to only 4% of patients referred with breast pain or nodularity. Better education of both the public and general practitioners, concerning the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, may reduce demands to perform mammographies outside the current national screening programme.

Ambulatory Care Facilities↗
PubMed1990

What are the psychological factors influencing attendance, non-attendance and re-attendance at a breast screening centre?

We describe some preliminary findings from a pilot study using three recently developed questionnaires which assessed items such as the health beliefs, knowledge about cancer and attitudes to breast cancer screening in 242 women invited to attend for mammographic screening in South East London. We suggest that these questionnaires should be used in all regional centres both to monitor psychological variables and to identify local problems within the service which may be influencing the up-take of invitations to come for screening.

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