Evaluation of the efficacy of the Australian mammographic screening program

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/509357

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

BreastScreen Australia uses interim measures such as participation, small cancer detection and interval cancer rates to monitor the impact of the program on mortality. Using BreastScreen Victoria as a case study, we will estimate the direct impact of the program on mortality for screened women, addressing Cancer Australia's priority of 'Improving screening program outcomes to ensure that patients can be identified and treated appropriately and ensuring that screening services are effective'.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $504,096.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

breast cancer | cancer detection, therapy and prevention | cancer epidemiology | efficacy | screening

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