Breast Screening: The Facts
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Published August 2009

This leaflet is also available in a British Sign Language DVD and in an audio CD set.

Designed to ensure that women are told what screening can and cannot achieve, the leaflet includes an explanation about false positive and false negative results, and addresses the need to inform patients about the use made of personal information for audit, as set out in the General Medical Council guidance on confidentiality.

This means that women should be able to make a genuinely informed choice based on an understanding about why they are attending for screening, and what happens to their records after being screened. The information will be sent to all women in England with their invitation for breast screening.

A leaflet called Understand Breast Screening, published May 2004 and produced by Cancerbackup in association with the NHS Breast Screening Programme, complements Breast Screening - The Facts.

Copies of 'Breast Screening - THE FACTS' can be ordered from the Department of Health publication orderline.

Copies of NHS Cancer Screening Programme publications are normally free of charge for staff working within the NHS, the voluntary sector and for healthcare students.

To 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.

Publication orders can be placed via the Department of Health publications website. Go to http://www.orderline.dh.gov.uk. You need to be a registered customer to place orders. If you have an existing customer number you can register online or call 01300 123 1002 to set up an account.

Orders can also be placed by telephone on 0300 123 1002 (no account required).