Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide

Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide

Updated April 2008

NHS Breast Screening: A Pocket Guide
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This booklet is a simple guide to breast screening designed for anyone who works or takes an interest in the breast screening programme.

Published April 2008

Copies of NHSBSP publications are normally free of charge for staff working within the NHS, the voluntary sector and for healthcare students. To order copies or obtain details of prices and availability of publications to those outside the NHS, please contact the Department of Health publication orderline: Telephone: 0300 123 1002, Textphone: 0300 123 1003, Fax: 01623 724 524, order directly from the Department of Health Publications Orderline website.

NHS Breast Cancer Screening Publications

Breast screening programme index

What happens at a
breast screening unit?

What are the risks of breast screening?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Breast awareness

Benign breast disease

DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma
in Situ)

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposed women

Archived statistics bulletins

Archived UK statistics

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The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme freephone helpline telephone no. is 0800 707 60 60. You can ring this number to request a screening kit if you are over 70.
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