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Effect of implementation of the mass breast cancer screening programme in older women in the Netherlands: population
Nienke A de Glas1, Anton J M de Craen2, Esther Bastiaannet1
1Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, Postzone K6-R, 2300 RC, Leiden, Netherlands Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands.
Objective:
To assess the incidence of early stage and advanced stage breast cancer before and after the implementation of mass screening in women aged 70-75 years in the Netherlands in 1998.
Design:
Prospective nationwide population based study.
Setting:
National cancer registry, the Netherlands.
Participants:
Patients aged 70-75 years with a diagnosis of invasive or ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer between 1995 and 2011 (n=25,414). Incidence rates were calculated using population data from Statistics Netherlands.
Main Outcome Measure:
Incidence rates of early stage (I, II, or ductal carcinoma in situ) and advanced stage (III and IV) breast cancer before and after implementation of screening. Hypotheses were formulated before data collection.
Results:
The incidence of early stage tumours significantly increased after the extension for implementation of screening (248.7 cases per 100,000 women before screening up to 362.9 cases per 100,000 women after implementation of screening, incidence rate ratio 1.46, 95% confidence interval 1.40 to 1.52, P<0.001). However, the incidence of advanced stage breast cancers decreased to a far lesser extent (58.6 cases per 100,000 women before screening to 51.8 cases per 100,000 women after implementation of screening, incidence rate ratio 0.88, 0.81 to 0.97, P<0.001).
Conclusions:
The extension of the upper age limit to 75 years has only led to a small decrease in incidence of advanced stage breast cancer, while that of early stage tumours has strongly increased.
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