Breast cancer screening is focused on the search and subsequent management of early stages of breast cancer in non-symptom women using mammography.
The aim of breast cancer screening is to detect early stages of breast cancer in women using mammographic examination at a researched mammographic workplace.
Early detection of breast cancer is an early stage of disease in which it is treatable and curable.
Target group: women aged 45 to 75
Time interval: every 2 years
What you need to know before performing a mammographic examination at a screening mammographic workplace HERE .
You can find the current list of workplaces HERE .
Invitation to screening breast cancer is done by health insurance companies. In order to unify the invitation, the women of the insured woman will be invited for the first time for screening in the month of their birth. They will then be invited at a date calculated by the date of the actual examination, within a specified time interval.
You can be sent to your doctor for screening mammography, such as a general doctor or gynaecologist.
Screening mammography is the most effective detection tool for early detection of breast cancer according to all available clinical data.
A large number of women are diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. During the year in the territory of the Slovak Republic, up to 300 women die from breast cancer unnecessarily due to late diagnosis of the disease.
This screening programme is aimed at actively searching for early stages of breast cancer, which reduces the mortality rate of up to 30%.
All useful information can be found at: https://www.oncocontrol.sk/
PRE-ACCESSION OF RACOIN BY THE SCREENING INVESTIGATION
BEFORE YOU ARE ADVANCED