Breast Cancer Screening - A Practical Guide for Primary Care Teams

ISBN 1 871997 55 0

This report is a practical guide for primary care teams. It covers the National Breast Screening Programme Guidelines, the breast screening procedure and the call and recall system. Topics which are covered in this report are:

1. Cancer of the breast
2. Early diagnosis of breast cancer: The case of mammographic screening
3. Organisation and Management of the National Breast Screening Programme
4. Communicating effectively with women about breast screening: the role of the primary care team

J Austoker, Cancer Research Campaign, University of Oxford, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Published 1990.

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