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Audit Of The Impact Of The Pause In The National Screening Service For Breast Cancer During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ava Coakley
Audit Of The Impact Of The Pause In The National Screening Service For Breast Cancer During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ava Coakley
International Undergraduate Journal of Health Sciences
In Ireland there is a free national screening service for breast cancer called BreastCheck. BreastCheck invites women aged fifty to sixty-nine to have screening mammograms once every two years to detect any densities in their breast mammogram which could indicate breast cancer. If densities are seen on a mammogram a breast core is sampled and sent to a histopathology laboratory where a part of the tissue is examined by a consultant pathologist using a microscope. Further tests can then be performed on this sample if it is diagnosed as breast cancer. Tests include immunohistochemistry and dual in-situ hybridisation (DISH). BreastCheck …