Breast cancer screening is a way of finding breast cancer at an early stage, when it may be too small to see or feel. If breast cancer is found earlier, treatment is usually easier or more likely to be successful. Breast cancer screening saves 1400 lives every year in England.
Who can have breast screening?
Women aged between 50 to 70 are invited every 3 years for breast screening. Women receive their first invitation after they turn 50 but before they are 54. This programme has recently been extended to screen some women age 47 to 50 and 70 to 73. Over the age of 73, women are not called automatically for screening, but if you would like to be screened, please contact the North London Breast Screening Service on 020 3758 2024 and you will receive an appointment. The screening is held in the unit located at:
Furzefield Leisure Centre
Mutton Lane
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 3BW
Eligible patients will be invited for screening when due. Please note, the screening unit is only at the Potters Bar site every 3 years. At other times screening can take place at the static site:
North London Breast Screening Service
Deansbrook House
Edgware Community Hospital
Deansbrook Road
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 9BA