title: The Guildford breast screening project.
abstract: Of the 24 069 women aged 45-64 registered with a Practitioner in the South West Surrey Health District 69% attended for breast cancer screening by clinical examination and mammography, with the resultant cancer detection rate of 5.5/1000 women screened and a cancer: benign biopsy rate of 1:1.77. These cancers represent 94% of cancers diagnosed in screened women and 84% of all cancers diagnosed in the total population of this age within one year of the screening invitation. Seventy-three percent of the cancers detected by screening and 66% of all cancers diagnosed in the total population within a year of the screening invitation were 2 cm (or less) in maximum diameter.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged