Health professionals can increase women's confidence in breast screening by helping them to understand the benefits and limitations.
Role of health professionals
Health professionals can increase women's confidence in breast screening by helping them to understand:
- the benefits and the limitations of the mammogram
- the importance of regular screening
- symptoms of breast cancer
- treatment options, if they have an abnormality.
Clinical guidelines and resources
Information on evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, guides and recommendations is available from the Cancer Australia website.
These evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, guides and recommendations are designed to assist decision making and guide best practice in the management of breast cancer, as well as information related to breast cancer screening.