Poster: Breast cancer screening in Madeira 1999-2018: Comparison between participants and non-participants

• Autor(a) principal: Fraga, Cláudia
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Serrão, Patrícia, Camacho, Carolina, Camacho, José, Veira, Joaquim, Armas, Mónica, Ferreira, Nuno, Callahan, Karen E., Pinheiro, Paulo S., Muller, Sara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/29783
• topic: breast cancer; Madeira Island; screening mammography programme; Registo Oncologico da Madeira; screening program

Female breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in most countries and the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Since 1999, a population-based bi-annual BC screening mammography programme for women aged 45-69 has been in place in Madeira, with participation reported at 57% of all eligible females of the archipelago population (255,000). While all women receive an appointment letter to attend screening, many BCs are detected outside the network of the screening programme as ascertained by the Madeira Cancer Registry (Registo Oncológico Regional); here called “non-participants.” To date, despite this long period of activity, an assessment of the impact of the BC screening programme on BC mortality in Madeira has not been carried out. Making use of available data, we compared the characteristics and survival of BC tumors between participants and non-participants of this screening programme in an effort to initiate more elaborate analyses of the impact of the screening program.