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CR-UK/YCR SHEFFIELD CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE PUBLIC LECTURE
SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE.....
Professor David Cameron, Professor of Oncology and Clinical Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. Member of Michael Marmot's Independent Breast Screening Review Panel
THURSDAY 21 MARCH, Drinks Reception 7.00pm, Lecture 7.30-8.30pm
Firth Hall, Firth Court, Western Bank, S10 2TN
Breast Screening Programmes in the UK extend lives but at a cost, according to the results of an independent review published in The Lancet (Volume 380, Issue 9855, Pages 1778 - 1786, 17 November 2012). The Review estimated that while screening prevents about 1,300 breast cancer deaths per year, it can lead to about 4,000 women each year aged 50-70 in the UK having treatment for a condition that would never have troubled them.
“The Panel concluded that the screening programmes have contributed to reducing deaths from breast cancer in women. But they have also resulted in some over diagnosis among women who go for screening. It is now vital to give women information that is clear and accessible before they go for a mammogram so they can understand both the potential harms and benefits of the process.”
Booking at: www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffield-cancer-research-centre/patient-public-information/public-lecture
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