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Preliminary material: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations
Summary
Data at a glance
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 andductal 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
Appendix A: Supporting data tables
- A1 Participation
- A2 Rescreening
- A3 Recall to assessment
- A4 Invasive breast cancer detection
- A5 Ductal carcinoma in situ 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
- Australian Burden of Disease Study 2011
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
- Interpretation of confidence intervals
End matter: Glossary; References; List of tables; List of figures; List of boxes; Related publications
Supplementary online data tables