BreastScreen Australia is one of Australia’s three population-based cancer screening programs and provides free 2-yearly screening mammograms to women aged 40 and over, and actively targets women aged 50–74. This report presents the latest data available for each performance indicator across the topics of recruitment, screening, diagnosis and outcome. Breast cancer mortality has decreased since BreastScreen Australia began in 1991.

Findings

• In 2020, breast cancer was the most common cancer in Australian women, with 307 new cases per 100,000 women aged 50–74.
• In 2021–2022, over 1.8 million women participated in the BreastScreen Australia. This was 50% of women aged 50–74.
• After adjusting for age, participation was 25% lower for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women than for non-Indigenous women.
• In 2020, of all breast cancer cases in women aged 50–74, 46% were detected through BreastScreen Australia.