The Swedish Two-County Trial of Mammography Screening (WE)

Dalarna County Council, Sweden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Neoplasm Female

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Imaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03217539

DalarnaCC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Population-based randomized controlled trial carried out in two Swedish counties, Dalarna and Ostergotland to find out the impact of early detection on mortality from breast cancer.

Full description

The Swedish Two-county study is a randomized controlled trial of invitation to mammography screening. The trial took place in Kopparberg (W), now called Dalarna, and Ostergotland counties in Sweden. The trial randomized 77,080 women aged 40-74 years to invitation to screening (active study population, ASP) and 55,985 women to no invitation to screening (passive study population, PSP). The trial started in 1977 in W-county and in 1978 in E-county. Women in age 40-49 years were invited to single-view mammography screening on average every 24 months, and women aged 50-74 years on average every 33 months. Approximately seven years after randomization a significant 31% decrease in breast cancer mortality was observed in the ASP group, whereupon the PSP was invited to screening once and the screening phase of the trial ended. The mortality data have been reported every two years during the follow-up period and published in peer-reviewed medical journals. The investigators have follow-up data to the Dec 31 2015. The 29-year follow-up data has been published in 2012 in Radiology. Publication of the long-term data reflects the fact that deaths avoided by early detection include some that would have occurred a considerable time later than the screening.

Enrollment: 133,065 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40 to 74 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

• Female
• Aged 40-74
• No history of breast cancer

Exclusion criteria

• Breast cancer diagnosis prior to randomization

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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133,065 participants in 2 patient groups

Active Study Population

Experimental group

Description:

In the experimental arm, women aged 40-74 who were randomly selected to receive an invitation to undergo imaging with periodic single view mammography screening. This arm is referred to as the Active Study Population (ASP)

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Imaging

Passive Study Population

No Intervention group

Description:

In the no intervention arm, women aged 40-74 who were randomly selected to not receive an invitation to undergo periodic single view mammography screening received usual care. This arm is referred to as the Passive Study Population (PSP)