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| - How susceptible is the Antwerp female population to mammographic screening?
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| - The benefit of organized screening has been demonstrated for breast cancer as well as for cervical cancer. As far as breast cancer screening is concerned, there are several recommendations made by the European Union that its member states should offer mammographic screening every 2 years to all women between 50 and 70 years before the year 2000. In Belgium, it is very easy for a woman to obtain mammography from a private radiologist who is not taking part In an organized screening for breast cancer. One of the important items before starting an organized breast cancer screening programme is to get a clear idea of the screening status that already exists, its determinants and the willingness of the women to be screened. For this reason, a study In Antwerp was performed by means of an extensive questionnaire. Five hundred randomly selected Antwerp women between 46 and 70 years of age were interviewed in their homes. The results of this study indicate that the Antwerp female population in the age group for which screening turned out to be valuable (50-70 years of age) can be described as ‘susceptible to mammographic screening’.
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