Plans and preparations for the mammographic screening in Slovenia

Introduction: In Slovenia there is no population based breast cancer screening, but women can attend „preventive“ mammography in a diagnostic setting. However, the opportunistic screening without quality assurance and control is not giving satisfactory results. The basic epidemiological parameters, such as the proportion of localized cancers diagnosed, breast cancer survival and mortality rate have not been improving sufficiently over the last ten years. The number of screened women is not known, but from several studies it is evident that the proportion of women in the age group 50–69, where the screening is mo…