Breast cancer: women screened under national programme rises to 1.9 million in 2010-11

Nearly 1.9 million women aged 45 and over were screened for breast cancer in England in 2010-11, Health and Social Care Information Centre figures show today.*Regional information available from this publication   This compares to 1.3 million women screened in 2000-01, according to Breast Screening Programme, England, 2010-11. The increase is partly due to the expansion of the programme to include a wider range of age groups, but population growth will also have affected the numbers screened. Originally women aged 50 to 64 were invited for screening, but in 2001 the age range was