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Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the world. The Digital Cancer Screening Group, led by Dr Yan Chen, has designed and developed an external quality assurance (EQA) system on behalf of Targeted Lung Health Check Programme, NHS England and Improvement. We are very excited to let you know that our work entitled ‘Effectiveness of percutaneous vacuum-assisted excision (VAE) of breast lesions of uncertain malignant potential (B3 lesions) as an alternative to open surgical biopsy’ won the first prize as the best scientific presentation in the Italian Conference of Breast Imaging (Società Italiana di Radiologia Medica e Interventistica 2021). Performance in the UK breast screening programme has been heavily audited as part of the quality assurance process since the screening programme began in 1988, as we know this drives improvements. A pivotal part of this process is PERFORMS (Personal Performance in Mammographic Screening)
PERFECTS has successfully been launched to all radiologists in the UK after a rewarding year of hard work on 31st of October 2022!
Italian Conference of Breast Imaging Prize
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