""Screening shouldn't be painful, but some women do experience a short period of pain when the mammogram is taken, or find it very uncomfortable and then decide that they don't want to go again," she said. "Often they also tell their friends and family about it and it creates a fear of pain in women who haven't been before, so they decide to avoid going for screening.""
""We want to do some work to better understand how this affects women, especially in this area [of London], which is very ethnically diverse." She added that patients who were worried a man might be present during the procedure could be reassured that the screening was a "female-only environment". "Mammography is still recognised as the best screening tool for picking up breast cancer," she said. "The aim of screening is to be picking up that cancer before the patient has any symptoms.""
A Queen Mary University of London research project received £400,000 from Breast Cancer Now to study low breast screening uptake in north-east London. Local screening uptake was about 54% in units serving Tower Hamlets, the City of London and Waltham Forest, compared with 63% across London and 70% in England. The project will examine pain experiences and cultural factors among Somali, African and South Asian women. All women aged 50 to 70 are invited for mammography every three years to detect cancers before symptoms develop. Concerns include pain during mammograms and worries about male presence; screening is female-only and mammography remains the best screening tool.
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