Gender Minorities

Only 10 out of 25 European countries address gender minorities in the eligible population in their breast cancer screening programme. This was revealed in a recent survey conducted by EUCanScreen task 6.6. Changes to policies to expand eligibility criteria are clearly needed.

Cancer Risks

The right to screening should be based on cancer risk, not on legally recognised gender or any other societal factor. To achieve equity, we must also break down other barriers related to cancer screening. For example, there are deficiencies in invitational practices, and lack of knowledge among health care providers.

Overcoming Barriers

These barriers and ways to overcome them will be studied in the next phase of the task – led by Finnish Cancer Registry – in semi-structured interviews in Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, and Latvia.

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