Breast Cancer Screening Detects Little | Visit Bulgaria

Currently, a mammogram every three years for every woman aged 50 to 70 years costs the NHS ?96 million, annually.

The breast cancer screening programme NHS claims saves 1,400 lives a year, while the Department of Health estimates picking up around 13,500 of the 48,000 new invasive breast cancer cases registered annually.

But now, a group of international cancer experts say no evidence has been found that screening has lead to sharper declines in deaths rates related to the disease. Last night, an independent researcher went as far as recommending governments to seriously consider dropping the screening programmes.

However, cancer charities and health agencies say the best evidence remains of the programmes reducing death rates.

The study published in the British Medical Journal compared declines in breast cancer death rates in three sets of similar territories: Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland; The Netherlands to Flanders in Belgium and Sweden to Norway, introducing the first of each pair screening 10 to 15 years earlier than the second.

However, little difference was found between the pairs in breast cancer mortality rate falls from 1989 to 2006.

The drops in percentage were: 29 for Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland 26; Sweden 16, Norway 24; Netherlands 25, Flanders 25.

In conclusion, researchers said the similarities suggested mammography screening did not play a direct hand in reducing breast cancer mortality, and nor does it by itself have any significant detectable impact on mortality due to breast cancer.

According to the researchers, a plausible explanation for the fall in breast cancer death rates would be due to improvements in treatment and healthcare systems. The credit for the decline in breast cancer related death rates should go to those who treat the disease, and not those screening for it.

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