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| Failing the screen test | | Author(s) | Craig Kenny |
| Journal title | Nursing Times, vol 94, no 18, May 6 1998 |
| Pages | pp 12-13 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Cancer ; Screening. |
| Annotation | Despite being in the highest-risk age group, women over 65 are not invited to attend national breast screening programmes every three years. The 1986 Forrest report, which initiated the national screening programme, argued that the older age group was less likely to attend screening and therefore was less likely to benefit. The policy was denounced by pensioners' groups as ageism, so that now there is some encouragement for women over 65 to attend breast screening, which is the subject of research at three pilot sites, but is not due to report until 2000. The article reports on views from the medical profession, both for and against. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980828222 A |
| Classmark | BD: CK: 3V * |
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