Seventeen of twenty-one regions are not connected to Sweden's national quality register for mammography screening (NKM). This risks affecting research and knowledge about breast cancer, reports Ekot on Swedish Radio.
If we don't have national coverage, it will be difficult to draw reliable conclusions at the national level and difficult to systematically improve mammography operations, says Eric Arelöf, register holder at NKM, to the radio.
Several regions plan to connect to the register before the turn of the year. Then, about half are expected to be connected, according to Eric Arelöf.
Technical reasons are said to be one reason why the work of getting regions connected to the register has been slow.
