General practice & primary care · UKMLA & AKT
Breast screening programme
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
Key high-yield points
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the UK - ~55,000 new cases/year; lifetime risk 1 in 7
- NHS Breast Screening Programme screens ~2.9 million women annually, detecting ~19,000 cancers/year
- Secondary prevention - detects cancer early, does not prevent it
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