A message from the Senior Director, Cancer Screening Services Unit, Queensland Health to the women of Queensland.
The Queensland Health BreastScreen Queensland Program is a population-based, public health program that offers free breast cancer screening and follow-up assessment services for women aged 50 to 69 years. This is the age group where research shows screening to be most beneficial. Women aged 40 to 49 years and 70 years and older can also attend if they choose.
The Queensland Health BreastScreen Queensland Program is made available to women through a network of local services throughout Queensland including 11 fixed site screening and assessment services, 16 satellite (screening only) services, five relocatable services and four mobile services that offer screening at over 200 locations throughout Queensland.
All BreastScreen Queensland services will convert to digital mammography by mid 2009. The new digital equipment enhances the BreastScreen Queensland Program as it allows radiographers to check the images on a computer for quality, and decrease the technical repeat rate.
The Queensland Health BreastScreen Queensland Program is the state component of the national breast cancer screening program, BreastScreen Australia. The BreastScreen Queensland Program operates in accordance with national standards and guidelines.
BreastScreen Queensland Decade of Achievement Report 1991-2001 (PDF 1,039kb) reflects on the achievements of the first decade of the BreastScreen Queensland Program.
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