Guidance

Breast screening: high risk women

This document explains the NHS breast screening programme for women defined as being at high risk of breast cancer.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 1 April 2012
• Last updated: 23 June 2025
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  1. 23 June 2025

     Changed content type to guidance.

  2. 27 September 2024

     Added information on how to request alternative formats via NHS England's Customer Contact Centre.

  3. 4 August 2022

     Updating confidentiality section, replacing mention of Public Health England with NHS England.

  4. 31 October 2021

     Addition of plain A4 PDF version for printing, to provide for people unable to access this information online.

  5. 22 April 2021

     Leaflet updated to include information for those over 71.

  6. 2 October 2019

     Added new HTML version of document.

  7. 17 January 2019

     Added information on use of gadolinium during MRI scans.

  8. 12 June 2018

     Updated format of leaflet, to include information about data use and confidentiality.

  9. 1 April 2012

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Breast screening for women with a high risk of breast cancer

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Breast screening for women with a high risk of breast cancer - for print

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Details

This information explains surveillance screening for women with a high risk of breast cancer.

It covers:

• what the term ‘high risk’ means
• who is offered surveillance screening
• methods of surveillance screening
• how to continue to have screening once invitations stop at the age of 71

This information is available in A4 PDF format (in English) to print out and provide for people who cannot access digital information.

To request another format, you can phone 0300 311 22 33 or email england.contactus@nhs.net.