向65至69岁女性发出乳腺癌筛查邀请的效果。

Effect of issuing an invitation for breast cancer screening to women aged 65 to 69.

作者信息

Hendry P J, Entwistle C

机构信息

North of Scotland Breast Screening Centre, Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust, Inverness, United Kingdom.

出版信息

J Med Screen. 1996;3(2):88-9. doi: 10.1177/096914139600300209.

DOI:10.1177/096914139600300209

PMID:8849767

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

Breast cancer screening is available to all women over 50 in the United Kingdom on the National Health Service breast screening programme. Only women aged between 50 and 64 receive a written invitation, with women over 64 being expected to self refer. Unfortunately, despite the higher incidence of breast cancer in the older age group only a very small proportion of women over 64 attend for screening. The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that women between the ages of 65 and 69 will attend for screening if invited.

METHOD

Women aged 65 to 69 were invited for screening from general practices in the Inverness area and were treated in all respects as the usual screening age group.

RESULTS

An uptake of 76% was achieved with a cancer detection rate of 9.3 per thousand.

CONCLUSION

These results lend weight to the suggestion that women in this age group should receive a specific invitation for breast cancer screening.

摘要

目的

在英国国家医疗服务体系的乳腺癌筛查项目中，50岁以上的所有女性均可接受乳腺癌筛查。只有年龄在50至64岁之间的女性会收到书面邀请，64岁以上的女性则需自行预约。遗憾的是，尽管老年女性群体中乳腺癌发病率较高，但64岁以上参加筛查的女性比例却非常小。本研究的目的是检验这样一个假设：65至69岁的女性如果收到邀请会参加筛查。