On the 4-7th June I was invited as the Australian delegate to the Biennial Meeting of the International Screening network at the Lo-Skolen Conference Center in Helsingor, Denmark.
The first day involved a planning workshop on issues related to best-practice treatment after the detection of screen detected breast cancer.
I gave a presentation on the framework for cancer screening in Australia and associated results. I presented some of the results from the National monitoring report. The latest report can be found here:
National monitoring report
To say the least, many delegates were VERY interested in our digital roll-out strategy and thought our Myer strategy and our proposed strengthened links with treatment was very innovative. A few delegates from Italy wanted more information about our strategies.
I met with a Professor of Education, Berta Geller from the University of Vermont and we spoke about working on an analysis of the best way to provide feedback to radiologists. Berta has collected information from all over the world on this issue and presented a poster on various "visual", easy to digest options.
I also had some discussions with various delegates on the issue of annual screening - lots of research ideas but no real solutions to the "problem" of too many annual screens.
the International Screening Web site can be found at:
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/icsn/
This is the breast cancer site of Prof John Boyages, author of Breast Cancer: Taking Control
