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Number of breast cancer cases detected by screening has doubled in a decade in England
BMJ 2009; 338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b414 (Published 02 February 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b414- Susan Mayor
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The routine breast screening programme in England is detecting twice as many cases of breast cancer each year as it did 10 years ago, the latest figures show.
A report from the NHS Information Centre says that the programme detected 14 110 cases of breast cancer in 2007-8, twice the number found in 1997-8, 6914 cases. More than three quarters (79%) of the cancers detected last year were invasive, and just over half of these (52%) were less than 15 mm …
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