Your doctor plays an important role in breast cancer screening through clinical breast examinations and screening follow-up. If the letter from the Screening Program recommends further testing, your doctor will receive the radiologist's report. Your doctor will then arrange for any additional tests recommended in the report. Yes, every month you should perform breast self-examination. One in nine Saskatchewan women will develop breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, exceeded only by lung cancer.
Breast cancer accounts for the greatest number of new cases of cancer in Saskatchewan women. Early detection is the only known way to reduce the number of breast cancer-related deaths.