Can Flemish women in semi-rural areas be motivated to attend organized breast cancer screening?
GROUND: The implementation of organized breast cancer screening in Flanders was prepared by means of pilot projects within a multicenter study. In the semi-rural district of Kontich (Province of Antwerp, Flanders) a pilot project was performed using a mobile screening unit. Compared to international standards, the attendance rate for this pilot project (i.e. 34%) was low. Non-organized screening, which already exists in Flanders, at least partly explains this low attendance rate for the organized screening. The main purpose of our study was to investigate the experience of the pilot target group with respect to the organized breast cancer screening in the district of Kontich, in order to maximize the conditions for a high attendance rate in the organized breast cancer screening programme throughout Flanders. METHODS: With a random numbers procedure, performed by the computer, 500 women were selected among those who were invited to the first screening round of the breast cancer screenin
