Cancer screen to cost $1M
A programme to screen Canterbury women for breast cancer would cost about $1 million to establish, according to a report tabled at the Canterbury Hospital Board health services committee meeting yesterday.
Annual staff and maintenance costs for the programme would be another $500,000, said the report.
The programme would screen every two yeans women aged between 45 and 60.
The reports was prepared by the head of the radiology department at Christchurch Women’s Hospital, Dr Richard Chisholm, in response to a request at last month’s health services committee meeting.
Establishing and running a proper screening programme would be a big business requiring considerable cost and skills, said Dr Chisholm. With 35,000 women in Canterbury in the 40 to 65 year aged group being screened every two years, 17,500 screenings would be needed each year, he said.
About 10 per cent of the screened patients would be “problem cases” requiring further treatment
The chairman of the health services committee, Mrs June Gardiner, said that a balanced view of screening was needed.
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