Evolution of the National Breast Screening Programme in Ireland: Two-year interval analysis (2004-2013) of BreastCheck.

Objective: Monitoring breast screening programmes is essential to ensure quality. BreastCheck, the national breast screening programme in the Republic of Ireland, commenced screening in 2000, with full national expansion in 2007, and digital mammography introduced in 2008. We aimed to review the performance of BreastCheck from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2013.

Establishment of a national cervical screening programme in Ireland, CervicalCheck: the first 6 years.

The national cervical screening programme, CervicalCheck, commenced in Ireland in 2008. Free cervical smear tests are offered to over 1.2 million women aged 25-60 every 3 (aged 25-44) and 5 (aged 45-60) years.

Tissue banking: relationship with blood donor and organ donor card status.

Understanding the relationships among altruistic health acts may serve to aid therapeutic research advances. In this paper, we report on the links between two such behaviours-donating blood and carrying an organ donor card-and willingness to donate urological tissue to a tissue bank. Reasons for the differential willingness to do so are examined in this paper.

Patients attending tertiary referral urology clinics: willingness to participate in tissue banking.

Objective: To examine attitudes of male patients attending urology clinics to the donation of prostate tissue samples for research purposes, to compare attitudes in relation to age, educational attainment, previous hospitalization and experience of cancer, and to evaluate attitudes to the duration of storage of tissue samples.

Patients And Methods: A systematic sample of 259 male patients aged 20-75 years, attending the urology clinics in two busy tertiary referral urological centres, completed a self-reported questionnaire in an outpatient setting.

Results: Most (84.