BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2014–2015

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Release Date: 03 Oct 2017
Author: AIHW

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Around 54% of women in the target age group of 50–74 took part in BreastScreen Australia, with more than 1.7 million women screening in 2014–2015.
Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began from 31 deaths per 100,000 women of all ages in 1991 to 20 deaths per 100,000 women of all ages in 2014.

ISSN: 2205-4855 (PDF) 1039-3307 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-76054-198-9
Cat. no: CAN 105
Pages: 114

Findings from this report:

Incidence has remained steady at around 300 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74 for over a decade
In 2014, 1,404 women aged 50–74 died from breast cancer, which is equivalent to 45 deaths per 100,000 women
In 2015, a high proportion of invasive breast cancers detected were small
In 2013, there were 9,581 new cases of invasive breast cancer diagnosed in women aged 50–74

Preliminary material
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Data at a glance
Body section
- 1 Introduction
  - 1.1 Breast cancer
  - 1.2 Age is the greatest risk factor for breast cancer
  - 1.3 Screening can detect breast cancer early
  - 1.4 Screening mammography decreases morbidity and mortality from breast cancer
- 2 Women aged 50–74 now targeted by BreastScreen Australia
  - 2.1 Reporting women aged 50–74
- 3 Monitoring BreastScreen Australia using program data
  - 3.1 Screening behaviour
  - 3.2 Sensitivity of the screening test
  - 3.3 Detection of invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ
- 4 Key breast cancer outcomes
  - 4.1 Incidence of breast cancer
  - 4.2 Incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ
  - 4.3 Survival after a diagnosis of breast cancer
  - 4.4 Prevalence of breast cancer
  - 4.5 Mortality from breast cancer
  - 4.6 Burden of breast cancer
- 5 Participation in BreastScreen Australia and breast cancer outcomes in Indigenous women
  - 5.1 Participation in BreastScreen Australia in Indigenous women
  - 5.2 Breast cancer outcomes in Indigenous women
- 6 Monitoring other aspects of BreastScreen Australia
  - 6.1 Expenditure on BreastScreen Australia
End matter
- Appendix A: Supporting data tables
  - A1 Participation
  - A2 Rescreening
  - A3 Recall to assessment
  - A4 Invasive breast cancer detection
  - A6a Interval cancers
  - A6b Program sensitivity
  - A7a Invasive breast cancer incidence
  - A7b Ductal carcinoma in situ incidence
  - A8 Mortality from breast cancer
- Appendix B: BreastScreen Australia information
  - Performance indicators
  - National Accreditation Standards (NAS) Measures
- Appendix C: Data sources
  - State and territory BreastScreen registers
  - AIHW Australian Cancer Database
  - AIHW National Mortality Database
  - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths
  - ABS population data
- Appendix D: Classifications
  - Age
  - State or territory
  - Remoteness area
  - Socioeconomic group
  - Classification of invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ
- Appendix E: Statistical methods
  - Comparisons and tests of statistical significance
  - Crude rates
  - Age-specific rates
  - Age-standardised rates
  - Confidence intervals
- Glossary
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Related publications
- Supplementary online data tables

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