Guidance

Breast screening: interval cancer data, April 2003 to March 2005

NHSBSP occasional report 1203: national collation of interval cancer data.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 December 2012

Documents

National collation of breast interval cancer data: 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2005

Ref: ISBN 978-1-84463-089-9, NHSBSP occasional report 1203

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The aim of breast screening services is to decrease incidence of, and mortality from, breast cancer.

A proportion of cancers are diagnosed between scheduled screening episodes.

These cancers are called ‘interval cancers’, and are defined as ‘cancers diagnosed following a normal screening result during the interval beginning with the closure of the previous NHS screening episode and ending when the next screening episode is due to commence’.

Published 1 December 2012