NHS Cancer Screening Programmes: Press Room

13/07/2009: Survey reveals black and minority ethnic communities unaware of cervical cancer risk... More...

10/07/2009: NHS Breast Screening Programme responds to allegations that one in three breast cancers detected in screened women is overdiagnosed.... More...

24/06/2009: The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Ann Keen): "I announced in my Written Ministerial Statement of 13th March 2009 that we had asked the independent Advisory Committee on Cervical Screening (ACCS) to formally review the evidence relating to risks and benefits of cervical screening in women under 25 years, including current evidence regarding incidence and mortality in young women..." More...

24/06/2009: There will be a new drive to ensure GPs spot cervical cancer symptoms earlier in young women and refer patients correctly, Health Minister Ann Keen announced today... More...

11/06/2008: Screen-detected breast cancer patients match life expectancy of general UK female population... More...

03/03/2008: More than half a million breast cancers and significant cervical abnormalities detected in two decades... More...

25/09/2007: Cancer screening to be expanded and waiting times to be further reduced... More...

10/08/2007: The NHS Breast Screening Programme responds to a new study comparing MRI with mammography... More...

18/10/2006: NHS Breast Screening Programme responds to the Review published by the Cochrane Collaboration... More...

19/04/2006: The Department of Health has today issued the following statement about the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme ... More...

22/02/2006: Breast screening programme saves 1,400 lives per year... More...

03/11/2005: More women than ever before are attending for breast screening, according to the latest statistics published today in the NHS Breast Screening Programme Annual Review 2005... More...

11/10/2004: Statistics published today in the NHS Breast Screening Programme Annual Review 2004 show that, with over 80,000 more women attending for breast screening, the programme is reaching more women than ever before.More...

16/07/2004: Cervical Screening Saves Thousands of Lives...More...

16/07/2004: New NHS guideline will help identify and care for women at risk of "familial" breast cancer...More...

22/10/2003: Modernising the NHS Cervical Screening Programme - Introduction of LBC and change in national policy...More...

08/08/2003 Today the Lancet is publishing a paper by Professor Valerie Beral et al revealing the first results from the Million Women study. The study confirms that current and recent use of HRT can increase a woman's chance of developing breast cancer...More...

01/07/2003 Cervical cancer deaths fall below 1000 as new research suggests changes to screening frequency. For the first time ever deaths from cervical cancer have fallen below 1,000 in England. Figures released by National Statistics reveal that in 2002, 927 deaths from cervical cancer were registered...More...

December 2002 NHS Cancer Screening Programmes Literature Updates are now available on-line. With fully searchable and browsable versions of each title, this new facility will enable everyone to keep up to date with the latest research published in cancer screening...More...

04/03/2002 Women, who are hard of hearing, visually impaired or whose first language is not English should not miss out on being able to make a genuinely informed choice about whether or not to accept their invitation for screening... More...

01/11/2001 Health Minister Lord Hunt, TV anchorwoman and former trainee radiographer Fiona Phillips, and representatives from cancer charities today joined the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes at the British Library to launch 'informed choice'... More...