NHS Breast Screening Programme Statistics

All Breast Cancer Report (PDF 3.6Mb) and associated Power Point Presentation (709Kb)

Analysis of 2006 breast cancers, both symptomatic and screen-detected, including statistics related to the following subjects:

  • Gender and age
  • Deprivation
  • Presentation route
  • Tumour characteristics
  • Treatment
  • Relative survival rates

NHS Breast Screening Programme Statistical Bulletin (England) 2009 (opens in separate window)

Statistics include:

  • Summary statistics on breast cancer and screening
  • Test status and coverage of women by age and by SHA region
  • Uptake of invitations to screen for women aged 50-64 and 50-70 by SHA
  • Number of women invited and uptake of invitations to screen, by age band and type of invitation
  • Number of women screened by age band and type of invitation
  • Women screened broken down by age band, type of invitation, outcome, and SHA region
  • Women aged 45 and over, with cancer diagnosed, by size of cancer and age band
  • Women aged 50-64 and 50-70, with cancer diagnosed, by invitation type and size of cancer
  • Coverage (percentage of eligible population screened) by PCT
  • Uptake (number of women screened) broken down by Breast Screening Unit
  • Selected diagnostic and outcome statistics for women

Breast Screening Results from the NHSBSP (PDF 216Kb) (United Kingdom statistics 2007/2008)

Statistics include:

  • Number of women screened
  • Acceptance by type of screening
  • Outcomes of prevalent screens
  • Outcome of incident screens
  • Outcome of short-term recalls
  • Outcome of self/GP referrals

Annual Review 2009

The latest annual review of the NHS Breast Screening Programme including the following UK statistics.

  • Screening activity of women of the age of 50 years old
  • Acceptance analysis
  • Screening quality
  • Screening in women age 71 and over
  • Biopsy use
  • Treatment of screen detected cancers
  • Immediate reconstruction surgery
  • Regional and age-related breakdown
  • Outcomes of self/GP referrals
  • Standardised detection rates (by region)

ABS at BASO Breast Screening Audit 2008 - 2009
An audit of screen detected breast cancers for the year of screening April 2008 to March 2009

Statistics relate to:

  • Analysis of screen detected breast cancer
  • Non-operative diagnosis and use of diagnostic open biopsy
  • Pre-operative assessment of axilla
  • Surgical treatment and tumour size
  • Waiting times
  • Hormone receptor status, lymph node status, invasive grade and NPI score
  • Surgical caseload
  • Repeat therapeutic operations and neo-adjuvant therapies
  • Adjuvant therapy
  • Survival analysis

Archived Publications

Archived statistics bulletinsArchived statistics bulletins

Archived UK statisticsArchived UK statistics

Archived annual reviewsArchived annual reviews

Further evaluation of the screening programme is undertaken by the
Cancer Screening Evaluation Unit.

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