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Cancer Screening: Provider Reminder and Recall Systems – Breast Cancer

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Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: February 2006

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends using provider reminder systems to increase screening mammograms for breast cancer. These reminders let health care providers know that it’s time — or past time — for a client’s cancer screening. Providers can get the reminders in different ways, like in client charts or emails.

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2006). Cancer Screening: Provider Reminder and Recall Systems – Breast Cancer. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/cancer-screening-provider-reminder-and-recall-systems-breast-cancer