LGA15 Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program - 2010-2012

The number of females who participated in a breast cancer screening program and there proportion of the relevant population, as well as the number of people diagnosed with breast cancer as a rate of those who participated, 2010-2011 (NSW, Vic, Qld, SA & WA).\nSource: Compiled by PHIDU based on data from BreastScreen NSW, BreastScreen Vic, BreastScreen Qld, BreastScreen WA - 2010 and 2011.The Dataset also contains the number of females who participated in a cervical cancer screening program and there proportion of the relevant population, as well as the number of the people diagnosed with low/high cervical cancer as a rate of those who participated, 2010-2011 (NSW, Vic, Qld, SA, WA & ACT).\nSource: Compiled by PHIDU based on data from the NSW Department of Health and NSW Central Cancer Registry, 2011 and 2012; Victorian Cervical Cytology Registry, 2011 and 2012; Queensland Health Cancer Services Screening Branch, 2011 and 2012; SA Cervix Screening Program, 2011 and 2012; Western Australia Cervical Cytology Register, 2011 and 2012; and ACT Cytology Register, 2011 and 2012.For both sets of screening if a women was screened more than twice in the two year period she is counted once only (all entries that were classified as not shown, not published or not applicable were assigned a null value; no data was provided for Maralinga Tjarutja LGA, in South Australia). The data is by LGA 2015 profile (based on the LGA 2011 geographic boundaries). For more information on statistics used please refer to the PHIDU website, available from: [http://phidu.torrens.edu.au/](http://phidu.torrens.edu.au/help-and-information/about-our-data/statistical-information)