ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1995
Is the three year breast screening interval too long? Occurrence of interval cancers in NHS breast screening programme's north western region.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mammography screening: an incremental cost effectiveness analysis of double versus single reading of mammograms.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1996Trial
- Risk factors of developing interval early gastric cancer after negative endoscopy.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2015Article
- Clinicopathologic characteristics of interval gastric cancer in Korea.Gut and liver · 2015Article
- Breast cancer mortality in relation to receipt of screening mammography: a case-control study in Saskatchewan, Canada.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2015Article
- Adjusting the incidence increase when screening for statistical lead time will always give estimates of overdiagnosis close to zero.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2014Article
- Performance of different gastric cancer screening methods in Korea: a population-based study.PloS one · 2012Article
- Interval cancers in the NHS breast cancer screening programme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.British journal of cancer · 2011Article
- Article
- Prevention trials: their place in how we understand the value of prevention strategies.Annual review of public health · 2010Review
- Predicted long-term mortality reduction associated with the second round of breast screening in East Anglia.British journal of cancer · 2001Article
- Is clinical breast examination an acceptable alternative to mammographic screening?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000Review
- Screening and litigation. The rate of interval cancers is too high.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000Article
- A study of interval breast cancer within the NHS breast screening programme.Journal of clinical pathology · 2000Article
- Computer-assisted mammographic imaging.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2000Article
- Interval cancers in the Dutch breast cancer screening programme.British journal of cancer · 1999Article
- NHS breast screening programme. Both extended age range and reduced screening interval are needed.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
- Extending the benefits of breast cancer screening. Still hard to know how large the benefits will really be.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998Article
- Survival rates from interval cancer in NHS breast screening programme.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998Article
- Calculating appropriate target cancer detection rates and expected interval cancer rates for the UK NHS Breast Screening Programme. Interval Cancer Working Group.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1998Article
- Rate and classification of interval cancers in the breast screening programme.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 1997Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo report the detection rate of interval cancers in women screened by the NHS breast screening programme.
designDetection of interval cancers by computer linkage of records held by the screening centres in the North Western Regional Health Authority with breast cancer registrations at the regional cancer registry.
settingNorth Western Regional Health Authority. SUBJECTS: 137,421 women screened between 1 March 1988 and 31 March 1992 who had a negative screening result.
results297 invasive interval cancers were detected. The rate of detection of interval cancers expressed as a proportion of the underlying incidence was 31% in the first 12 months after screening, 52% between 12 and 24 months, and 82% between 24 and 36 months.
conclusionThe incidence of interval cancers in the third year after breast screening approaches that which would have been expected in the absence of screening and suggests that the three year interval between screens is too long.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.