Breast Cancer Screening

Question 1

What sort of cancer is associated with familial breast cancer?

Answer 1

Ovarian Cancer.

Question 2

What age group in the UK are screened?

Answer 2

47-73

Question 3

How often are women offered a mammogram?

Answer 3

Every 3 years.

However, after 70 years old women are encouraged to make their own appointments and are not reminded.

Question 4

Do all women with a first or second degree relative diagnosed with breast cancer need a familial breast cancer service?

Answer 4

No.

Question 5

Women that do need a familial breast cancer referral will have a first or second degree relative with diagnosed with breast cancer AND will have one of the following:

Answer 5

1. Age of diagnosis <40 years.
2. Bilateral breast cancer.
3. Male breast cancer
4. Ovarian cancer
5. Jewish ancestry
6. Sarcoma in a relative younger than age 45 years.
7. Glioma or childhood adrenal cortical carcinomas.
8. Complicated patterns of multiple cancers at a young age.
9. Paternal history of breast cancer (two or more relatives on the father’s side of the family)

Question 6

Can younger women be referred who don’t fall in the screening age agroup but who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to family history?

Answer 6

Yes if they have:

1. A first degree relative with breast cancer
   
   • <40yrs female
   • Male
   • <50yrs with bilateral disease.
2. Breast +/- Ovarian Ca of any age.​
   
   • 2 x 1^st degree relatives
   • 1 x 1^st and 1 x 2^nd degree relative
3. Breast cancer of any age
   
   • ​​.3 x 1^st or 2^nd degree relatives