Breast cancer screening in Canada: a review.

Organized screening for breast cancer in Canada began in 1988 and has been implemented in all provinces and 2 of the 3 territories. Quality initiatives are promoted through national guidelines which detail best practices in various areas, including achieving quality through a client-service approach, recruitment and capacity, retention, quality of mammography, reporting, communication of results, follow-up and diagnostic workup, and program evaluation; it also offers detailed guidelines for the pathological examination and reporting of breast specimens. The Canadian Breast Cancer Data Base is a national breast cancer screening surveillance system whose objective is to collect information from provincial-screening programs.

Organized breast screening programs in Canada: effect of radiologist reading volumes on outcomes.

Purpose: To examine retrospectively the relationship between radiologist screening program reading volumes and interpretation results.

Materials And Methods: This research project was reviewed by the University of British Columbia Research Ethics Board. Informed patient consent was not required.