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Breast cancer screening

Canada

• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  • Screening for Breast Cancer [2011]
  • Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years [2011]

• Cancer Care Ontario
  • Breast Screening

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care [2011]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Report from the Evaluation Indicators Working Group: Guidelines for Monitoring Breast Screening Program Performance - Second Edition [2007]
  • Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs in Canada - Report on Program Performance in 2001 and 2002 [2005]
  • Quality Determinants of Organized Breast Cancer Screening Programs [2003]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Breast self-examination [2006]

Czech Republic

• BMC Public Health
  • Breast cancer screening in the Czech Republic: time trends in performance indicators during the first seven years of the organised programme [2011]

International

• Breast Health Global Initiative
  • Guideline implementation for breast healthcare in low- and middle-income countries : Early detection resource allocation [2008]

• Cochrane Library
  • Strategies for increasing the participation of women in community breast cancer screening
  • Regular self-examination or clinical examination for early detection of breast cancer

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Guideline implementation for breast healthcare in low- and middle-income countries: early detection resource allocation. Breast Health Global Initiative [2008]

Iran

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
  • Opportunity for breast cancer screening in limited resource countries: a literature review and implications for Iran [2011]
  • Breast cancer screening among females in Iran and recommendations for improved practice: a review [2011]

New Zealand

• Cancer Society of New Zealand
  • Position Statement on Breast Awareness [2008]

Singapore

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • The Case for Breast Cancer Screening in Singapore [2002]

United Kingdom

• NHS Breast Screening Programme
  • Quality assurance guidelines for surgeons in breast cancer screening, Fourth Edition, March 2009 [2009]
  • NHS Breast Screening Programme

United States of America

• American Cancer Society
  • Breast Cancer: Early Detection [2013]

• American College of Radiology
  • Breast Cancer Screening [2012]

• CDC Cancer Prevention and Control
  • National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)

• Madigan Army Medical Center
  • Breast Mass Referral Guidelines [2009]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Screening for Breast Cancer in Women at Average Risk [Guideline synthesis]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® breast cancer screening [2012]
  • Breast cancer screening. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [2011]
  • Breast cancer screening clinical practice guideline. Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute [2010]
  • 1) Screening for breast cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. 2) December 2009 addendum [2009]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Breast Cancer: Screening [2009]

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Guidelines for the early detection and screening of breast cancer [2006]

• World Health Organization
  • Screening for Breast Cancer

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • Screening for Breast Cancer: Current Recommendations and Future Directions [2007]
  • Evaluation of Palpable Breast Masses [2005]

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  • Tailored Supplemental Screening for Breast Cancer: What Now and What Next? [2009]

• Annals of Oncology
  • Evaluation of service screening mammography in practice: the impact on breast cancer mortality [2005]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Clinical breast examination for asymptomatic women - Exploring the evidence [2007]

• BMC Public Health
  • Breast cancer screening beliefs by practice location [2003]

• British Medical Journal
  • Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study [2004]
  • Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: prospective cohort study [2004]

• Cancer Causes and Control
  • Promoter Methylation and the Detection of Breast Cancer [2009]

• Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Accuracy of Self-Reported Cancer-Screening Histories: A Meta-analysis [2008]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
  • Breast Cancer Screening Controversies [2003]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Breast cancer screening [2003]

• Open Medicine
  • Frank words about breast screening [2011]

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