Response by women aged 65-79 to invitation for screening for breast cancer by mammography: a pilot study
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- DOI: 10.1136/bmj.301.6764.1314
Response by women aged 65-79 to invitation for screening for breast cancer by mammography: a pilot study
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- BMJ 1991 Jul 27;303(6796):234
Abstract
Objective: To determine whether there is sufficient benefit to be gained by offering screening for breast cancer with mammography to women aged 65-79, who are not normally invited for screening.
Design: Pilot study of women eligible for screening but not for personal invitation. The results of this study were compared with the results of routinely screened younger women (aged 50-64) from the same general practice.
Setting: One group general practice in south Manchester.
Patients: The 631 women aged 65-79 on the practice list. A total of 42 (7%) were excluded by the general practitioner, and 22 (4%) invitation letters were returned by the post office.
Main outcome measures: Response rates to invitation for screening assessed by three indices: crude population coverage ratio, crude invited population coverage ratio, and corrected invited population coverage ratio.
Results: 344 Patients aged 65-79 (61% of those invited, excluding those who could not be traced) were screened compared with 77% of women aged 50-64. The three response indices were higher for younger women than older: crude population coverage ratio = 66.5%, crude invited population coverage ratio = 69.3%, corrected invited population coverage ratio = 76.8% for women aged 50-64, compared with 54.5%, 58.4%, and 60.7% respectively for women aged 65-79. All four biopsies done in the older women gave positive results, giving a cancer detection rate of 11.6/1000 compared with 4.1/1000 among younger women.
Conclusions: These results show that there is a potential for high attendance at routine screening by older women if they are invited in the same way as younger women. If these results are found elsewhere the costs and benefits of screening older women should be reassessed.
Comment in
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Breast screening in women aged 65-79.BMJ. 1991 Feb 16;302(6773):411-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.302.6773.411-b. BMJ. 1991. PMID: 2053951 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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