Should women aged 70–74 be invited to participate in screening mammography? A report on two Australian community juries.
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Degeling, ChrisBarratt, Alexandra
Aranda, Sanchia
Bell, Robin
Doust, Jenny
Houssami, Nehmat
Hersch, Jolyn
Sakowsky, Ruben
Entwistle, Vikki
Carter, Stacy M
Abstract
Objective: To elicit informed views from Australian women aged 70–74 regarding the acceptability of ceasing to invite women their age to participate in government-funded mammography screening (BreastScreen).
Design: Two community juries held in 2017.
Setting: Greater Sydney, a metropolis of 4.5 million people in New South Wales, Australia.
Participants: 34 women aged 70–74 with no personal history of breast cancer, recruited by random digit dialling and previously randomly recruited list-based samples.Objective: To elicit informed views from Australian women aged 70–74 regarding the acceptability of ceasing to invite women their age to participate in government-funded mammography screening (BreastScreen).
Design: Two community juries held in 2017.
Setting: Greater Sydney, a metropolis of 4.5 million people in New South Wales, Australia.
Participants: 34 women aged 70–74 with no personal history of breast cancer, recruited by random digit dialling and previously randomly recruited list-based samples.
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Date
2018Source title
BMJ OpenVolume
8Issue
6Publisher
BMJ Publishing GroupLicence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0Faculty/School
Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public HealthShare