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Attend your Breast Screening Appointment
As well as being breast aware you should take advantage of services availale to you to detect the disease at an early stage.
The risk of developing breast cancer increases with age and over 80% of all cases in the UK occur in post-menopausal women, aged 50 or over.
- If you are a women aged between 50-70 you should be invited by the NHS Breast Screening Programme to have a mammogram (x-ray of the breast) every three years.
- If you are a woman over 70 you will not receive an invitation from the NHS, but you are still eligible for free NHS breast screening. Breakthrough strongly encourages you to make your own appointment via your GP or at a screening unit.
By far the biggest known risk is age the older you get the higher the risk of developing the disease.
Breakthrough strongly recommends all women attend their screening appointments when invited. Please encourage all your female family and friends over the age of 50 to go for breast screening.
