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Albania

• Institute of Public Health
  • Breast Cancer Screening in Albania During 2007-2008 [2013]

Asia

• Hong Kong Medical Journal
  • Understanding breast cancer screening—past, present, and future [2018]

Australia

• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 [2020]
  • BreastScreen Australia data dictionary: version 1.2 [2019]
  • Analysis of breast cancer outcomes and screening behaviour for BreastScreen Australia [2018]

• Cancer Australia
  • Early detection of breast cancer [2015]

• Department of Health Australia
  • BreastScreen Australia accreditation

• Public Health Research and Practice
  • Public health advocacy in action: the case of unproven breast cancer screening in Australia [2016]

Brazil

• Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Guidelines for early detection of breast cancer in Brazil. III - Challenges for implementation [2018]
  • Guidelines for early detection of breast cancer in Brazil. II - New national recommendations, main evidence, and controversies [2018]
  • Guidelines for early detection of breast cancer in Brazil. I - Development methods [2018]

• Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
  • Assessment of actions for breast cancer early detection in Brazil using process indicators: a descriptive study with Sismama data, 2010-2011 [2017]

• Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia
  • Breast Cancer Screening: Updated Recommendations of the Brazilian College of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Brazilian Breast Disease Society, and Brazilian Federation of Gynecological and Obstetrical Associations [2017]

Canada

• Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  • Breast Cancer Update (2018) [2018]

• CMAJ
  • Applying the 2011 Canadian guidelines for breast cancer screening in practice [2012]

• Current Oncology
  • Screening for breast cancer in 2018—what should we be doing today? [2018]
  • Recommendations on breast cancer screening and prevention in the context of implementing risk stratification: impending changes to current policies [2016]

• Ontario Health
  • Breast Screening for Survivors of Breast Cancer [2017]
  • Women's Experiences of Inaccurate Breast Cancer Screening Results: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-synthesis [2016]
  • Ultrasound as an Adjunct to Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening: A Health Technology Assessment [2016]
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Adjunct to Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening in Women at Less Than High Risk for Breast Cancer: A Health Technology Assessment [2016]

China

• Cancer Biology & Medicine
  • Interpretation of breast cancer screening guideline for Chinese women [2019]

• China CDC Weekly
  • Breast Cancer Screening Rates Among Women Aged 20 Years and Above — China, 2015 [2021]

• Oncologist
  • Breast Cancer Challenges and Screening in China: Lessons From Current Registry Data and Population Screening Studies [2015]

• Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy
  • Breast Cancer Screening Among Adult Women in China, 2010 [2013]

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]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• BMC Public Health
  • From the set-up of a screening program of breast cancer patients to the identification of the first BRCA mutation in the DR Congo [2014]

Denmark

• International Journal of Cancer
  • Benefit-to-harm ratio of the Danish breast cancer screening programme [2017]

Developing countries

• Clinics
  • Breast cancer screening in developing countries [2017]

Eastern Mediterranean

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

Ethiopia

• PLoS ONE
  • Breast self-examination practice and its determinants among women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Europe

• Cancers
  • Extending Age Ranges in Breast Cancer Screening in Four European Countries: Model Estimations of Harm-to-Benefit Ratios [2021]

• European Commission
  • Monitoring and evaluation of breast cancer screening programmes: selecting candidate performance indicators [2020]
  • Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis: A Synopsis of the European Breast Guidelines [2020]
  • European guidelines on breast cancer screening and diagnosis

• European Menopause and Andropause Society
  • EMAS position statement: Individualized breast cancer screening versus population-based mammography screening programmes [2014]

• European Society of Breast Imaging
  • Position paper on screening for breast cancer by the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) and 30 national breast radiology bodies [2017]

• International Journal of Cancer
  • The potential of breast cancer screening in Europe [2021]

• International Journal of Oncology
  • Breast cancer in European Union: An update of screening programmes as of March 2014 (Review) [2014]

France

• BMC Medical Ethics
  • Women's participation in breast cancer screening in France - an ethical approach [2014]

Germany

• Cancer Prevention Research
  • Estimating the Breast Cancer Burden in Germany and Implications for Risk-based Screening [2021]

Ghana

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Mapping evidence on knowledge of breast cancer screening and its uptake among women in Ghana: a scoping review [2022]

• Heliyon
  • The prevalence and predictive factors of breast cancer screening among older Ghanaian women [2020]

Greenland

• International Journal of Circumpolar Health
  • Societal costs and effects of implementing population-based mammography screening in Greenland [2017]

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Medical Journal
  • Update on the Recommendations on Breast Cancer Screening by the Cancer Expert Working Group on Cancer Prevention and Screening [2022]

India

• Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
  • Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards breast cancer and its screening among women in India: A systematic review [2021]

International

• Breast Health Global Initiative
  • Breast cancer early detection: A phased approach to implementation [2020]

• Cancer Medicine
  • Systematic reviews as a “lens of evidence”: Determinants of cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening [2019]

• Global Health Action
  • The global role, impact, and limitations of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in breast cancer screening: a scoping review and recommendations to promote health equity for all [2021]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women: the importance of shared decision making [2020]

Iran

• Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
  • Status of breast cancer screening strategies and indicators in Iran: A scoping review [2022]

Ireland

• Health Information and Quality Authority
  • Review of information management practices at BreastCheck [2018]

Japan

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
  • Analysis of Predictors of Breast Cancer Screening among Japanese Women Using Nationally Representative Survey Data, 2001–2013 [2021]

• Breast Cancer
  • The Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2018 Edition [2020]

• Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • The Japanese Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening [2016]

Low and middle income countries

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Screening for breast cancer: Cost-effective solutions for low- & middle-income countries [2021]

Malaysia

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
  • Breast Cancer Screening in Malaysia: A Policy Review [2021]

New Zealand

• Ministry of Health New Zealand
  • Cohort and case control analyses of breast cancer mortality: BreastScreen Aotearoa 1999-2011 [2015]
  • BreastScreen Aotearoa National Policy and Quality Standards [2013]

• National Screening Unit
  • BreastScreen Aotearoa

Norway

• European Journal of Public Health
  • Trends in breast cancer stage distribution before, during and after introduction of a screening programme in Norway [2014]

• International Journal of Cancer
  • Cost-effectiveness of the Norwegian breast cancer screening program [2017]

Peru

• PLoS ONE
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Breast Cancer Control Interventions in Peru [2013]

Qatar

• BMJ Open
  • Do socioeconomic factors influence breast cancer screening practices among Arab women in Qatar? [2015]

Singapore

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

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Cancer
  • Breast cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and ethical appraisal [2022]

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence and determinants of breast cancer screening in four sub-Saharan African countries: a population-based study [2020]

Switzerland

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Breast cancer screening attendance in two Swiss regions dominated by opportunistic or organized screening [2016]

Tunisia

• Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Contextual differences considered in the Tunisian ADOLOPMENT of the European guidelines on breast cancer screening [2021]

United Kingdom

• BMC Cancer
  • Risk stratified breast cancer screening: UK healthcare policy decision-making stakeholders’ views on a low-risk breast screening pathway [2020]

• British Journal of Cancer
  • Effect of population breast screening on breast cancer mortality up to 2005 in England and Wales: an individual-level cohort study [2016]
  • The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review [2013]

• Healthcare Improvement Scotland
  • Review of the Scottish Breast Screening Programme: December 2016 [2016]
  • Breast screening standards

• NHS Digital
  • Breast Screening Programme

• NHS England
  • NHS Breast screening programme screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2021
  • NHS Breast screening programme screening standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2017
  • Breast screening: very high risk women surveillance protocols
  • Breast screening: professional guidance
  • Breast screening supporting information
  • Breast screening programme: standards

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Breast screening pathway requirements specification

• Public Health England
  • Opting out of breast screening
  • NHS breast screening (BSP) programme
  • Breast screening: programme overview
  • Breast screening: organising very high risk (VHR) screening
  • Breast screening: interval cancers and duty of candour toolkit
  • Breast screening: interval cancers
  • Breast screening: care pathway

• Public Health Scotland
  • Scottish breast screening programme statistics

• Public Health Wales
  • Breast screening

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Supplemental Screening for Breast Cancer in Women With Dense Breasts [2016]
  • Screening for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review to Update the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation [2016]

• American Cancer Society
  • Breast Cancer Screening for Women at Average Risk: 2015 Guideline Update From the American Cancer Society [2015]
  • Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

• American College of Physicians
  • Screening for Breast Cancer in Average-Risk Women: A Guidance Statement From the American College of Physicians [2019]

• American College of Radiology
  • Breast Cancer Screening in Women at Higher-Than-Average Risk: Recommendations From the ACR [2018]
  • Breast Cancer Screening

• Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Breast Cancer Screening in the Era of Density Notification Legislation: Summary of 2014 Massachusetts Experience and Suggestion of An Evidence-Based Management Algorithm by Multi-disciplinary Expert Panel [2015]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Guideline-Inconsistent Breast Cancer Screening for Women over 50: A Vignette-Based Survey [2014]

• National Cancer Institute
  • Breast Cancer Screening (PDQ®)

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Breast Cancer: Screening [2016]

WHO

• International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Atlas of breast cancer early detection [2023]
  • Breast Cancer Screening [2016]
  • Breast-Cancer Screening — Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group [2015]
  • Breast self-examination (BSE)

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