BreastCheck currently provides breast screening services to women in the 50 to 64 age group in the Eastern Regional Health Authority, North Eastern Health Board and Midland Health Board areas. It has proved extremely successful in identifying breast cancer among women in this age group and it also provides for the necessary surgical care of women who require breast surgery. To the end of November last year, the programme had invited over 100,000 eligible women for screening and screened nearly 80,000, with an uptake rate of 75%.