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A trial to evaluate an age extension to the NHS Breast Screening Programme (AgeX)

Overview

Cancer types:

Breast cancer

Status:

Closed

Phase:

Other

Details

This trial is looking at the benefits and risks of extending the age when women are invited for breast screening.

The trial has now closed to recruitment. The research team will look at how many people are diagnosed with breast cancer and how they do.

They hope to have some early results by 2026. But the final results for the study won't be available until at least 2032. We will update this page with a summary of the results when they are available.

Recruitment start: 1 June 2009

Recruitment end: 31 March 2020

How to join

Please note: In order to you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.

Chief investigators

Associate Professor Toral Gathani

Supported by

Public Health England

NHS Breast Screening Programme

University of Oxford

Cancer Research UK

Last reviewed: 25 Aug 2020

CRUK internal database number: 9141

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