Situation at June 2002 |
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| Country | Valencia Community (Spain) | |
| Name of the project or programme | Valencia Breast Cancer Screening Program (VBCSP) | |
| Set-up policies in general: | ||
| Start of screening activities: | 1992 | |
| Organisation of screening activities (centralised/decentralised): |
Screening activities decentralised. Evaluation centralised. |
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| Number of screening programmes: | 1 | |
| Target population: | 505.000 | |
| Coverage: at regional level (%) | 100 % | |
| Participation: at regional level (%) | 75.5 % | |
| Set-up policies in detail | ||
| Screening interval: (yrs) | 2 years | |
| Mammographic views: Initial screening | Two views | |
| Subsequent screening | One view | |
| Double reading % of all mammograms | 100 % | |
| Initial screening | Subsequent screening | |
| Percentage of invasive cancers detected under 10mm | 21,27 % | 24,80 % |
| Percentage of invasive cancers detected without lymph nodes involvement |
70,03 % | 70,32 % |
| Detection rate of in-situ cancers | 16,05 % | 13,87 % |
| Detection rate of invasive cancers total cancer | 83,95 % | 86,13 % |
| Future plans | ||
| Expansion of the screening activities | Target population until 70 years | |
| Accreditation / certification activities? | ||
| Link to home page screening activities www: | In elaboration | |
| Name of the authors: | ||
| For more information on screening activities in the project/country VBCSP you can contact: |
Dolores Salas Trejo Unidad de Prevención del Cáncer Dirección General para la Salud Pública C/ Micer Mascó, 31 Phone: (+34) 96 386 66 0146010 VALENCIA, Spain E-mail: pcancer_val@gva.es E-mail: salas_dol@gva.es |
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