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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Breast Cancer Screening

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: National Institutes of Health

Last Reviewed: October 2020

Workgroups: Cancer Workgroup

This National Institutes of Health database of breast cancer screening programs helps program planners find evidence-based programs for different settings, population groups, and community types. Examples include:

  • Breast Health Education Among Hispanic Elderly Women, for unscreened or underscreened women age 65 years and older in clinical and other settings
  • Empowering Physicians to Improve Breast Cancer Screening, for clinicians in rural and suburban clinical settings
  • Friend to Friend, for medically underserved women in urban settings
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Objectives related to this resource (3)

Reduce the overall cancer death rate — C‑01
Improving
Reduce the female breast cancer death rate — C‑04
Improving
Increase the proportion of females who get screened for breast cancer — C‑05
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

National Cancer Institute. (n.d.). Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP), Breast Cancer Screening Evidence-Based Programs Listing. Retrieved from https://ebccp.cancercontrol.cancer.gov/topicPrograms.do?topicId=102263&choice=default