More breast cancer detected in women aged 50 to 60 since digitisation of population screening

donderdag 10 september 2015 17:00

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Dutch national breast cancer screening programme. A major change during those 25 years was the transition from analogue to digital images. The digitisation process was started in 2008 and completed in June 2010. The results of the changeover are now known. Especially in women under the age of 60, the proportion of breast cancers being detected early has risen. The data also confirm that breast cancer is increasingly common in the 50 to 75 year-old target group.