Breast Screening
What is breast screening?
Approximately 1 in 7 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime.
Breast Screening aims to find breast cancers early. It uses an X-ray examination called a mammogram that can find cancers when they're too small to see or feel. If detected early, treatment is more successful and there's a good chance of recovery.
Currently the NHS Breast Screening Programme saves an estimated 1300 lives each year in England.
Who do we screen?
Anyone registered with a GP as female will be invited for NHS breast screening every 3 years between the ages of 50 and 71. You'll get a letter in the post inviting you.
If you're a trans man, trans woman or are non-binary you may be invited automatically, or you may need to talk to your GP surgery or call the local breast screening service to ask for an appointment.
Our service is coordinated through the Primrose Breast Screening Unit which is situated within Derriford Hospital. Women can be invited to have their mammogram at the Primrose Unit, at a mobile unit situated at the Plymouth Albion car park on Damerel Close, or at our mobile unit that travels around to various locations outside of Plymouth during the 3 year breast screening cycle.