Spousal perceptions and their role in promoting breast cancer screening: a focus group study.

Objectives: To explore husbands' views on breast cancer screening, risk-based screening and their role in influencing their wives' health-seeking behaviours.

Design: Qualitative focus group discussion (FGD) supplemented by quantitative data from a cohort study using a structured questionnaire.

Setting: This study was conducted in a community-based setting, with participants recruited online through non-profit organisations via social media and email.

BREAst screening Tailored for HEr (BREATHE)-A study protocol on personalised risk-based breast cancer screening programme.

Routine mammography screening is currently the standard tool for finding cancers at an early stage, when treatment is most successful. Current breast screening programmes are one-size-fits-all which all women above a certain age threshold are encouraged to participate. However, breast cancer risk varies by individual.

Percutaneous mitral valve repair: a feasibility study in an ovine model of acute ischemic mitral regurgitation.

Annuloplasty is the cornerstone of surgical mitral valve repair. A percutaneous transvenous catheter-based approach for mitral valve repair was tested by placing a novel annuloplasty device in the coronary sinus of sheep with acute ischemic mitral regurgitation. Mitral regurgitation was reduced from 3-4+ to 0-1+ in all animals (P < 0.