Breast Screening Program Standards and Protocols
This document outlines the standards and protocols for the BC Cancer Breast Screening Program.
Breast Screening Program Fact Sheet
An overview of the breast screening program.

Breast Screening Referral Algorithm
A decision aid to assist health care providers to appropriately refer and book asymptomatic patients for breast screening.
Breast Screening Discussion Guide
A guide to discussing the benefits, limitations, and downsides of screening mammography with patients.
Breast Density Discussion Guide
This guide was developed to support your conversations with patients about breast density topics, including a patient's BI-RADs assessment, breast density risk, and supplemental screening.
Diagnostic Breast Imaging Recommendations
Recommendations to accompany your Impression. Organized by Bi-RADS Assessment Category.
Provider Fact Sheet: Supporting Patients Aged 75 and Older with Breast Screening Decision Making
A guide to help discuss if screening is beneficial for your patient after age 75.
Fact Sheet: Higher Risk Surveillance for ADH, ALH, and LCIS
This fact sheet provides recommendations for facilitating breast cancer surveillance for individuals at increased risk.
Breast Screening for Transgender, Gender-Diverse and Non-Binary People Guide
This guide provides evidence-informed breast screening recommendations for your trans, gender diverse and non-binary patients.
Coldman Report on Breast Density
This report is an independent review that examines evidence, expert opinion, and BC Cancer Breast Screening Program data regarding breast density, breast cancer risk, and breast screening.
Fact Sheet: Breast Screening for Women Who Received Mantle Radiation for Hodgkin Lymphoma
This fact sheet provides breast screening recommendations for patients who have received mantle radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma.
Common Reminder and Result Notices
BC Cancer Screening Program letters sent to patients and health care providers.

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Breast screening for transgender, gender-diverse and non-binary people

The influence of breast density on breast cancer diagnosis: A study of participants in the BC Cancer Breast Screening Program

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General screening guidelines

Cancer Screening Guidelines
Up-to-date guidelines for all four provincial screening programs in one convenient document
FNHA Cancer Screening Flipbook
Cancer Prevention and Cultural Safety resource from the First Nations Health Authority

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