Breast Screening: What to expect at your appointment video
Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) is an opportunity to raise awareness of breast screening. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Scottish women with one in nine developing the disease. Women are five times more likely to survive if it's caught in it's earliest stage.
In Scotland, the NHS offers routine breast screening to women aged 50 to 70. Those who are eligible are invited every three years, and the process typically takes around 10 minutes. Breast screening doesn’t prevent cancer, however it helps to detect cancers at an early stage when they are too small to see or feel.
To coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has launched a brand new video. It’s a step-by-step guide showing someone what will happen when they attend for a mammogram at a local centre or mobile clinic. As the video shows, the process is simple and takes around 10 minutes.
The video is available on YouTube, or you can download it here. There is also a social media toolkit with static assets.
All resources can be downloaded on the PHS Marketing Resource Centre.
Please regularly feed these into your planned activity, using the hashtag #BreastScreeningScot (using the hashtag is important as it allows us to monitor usage, which informs future campaigns). It’s the last few days of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but remember, breast screening is offered all year round so you can continue to use the assets and video.
Please feel free to share these resources with any relevant channels or networks.
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