Figure 1.

Scheme depicting the three-section design of the national, cross-sectional, voluntary, online survey of Italian specialist breast centres associated with Senonetwork, 2020. The primary objective of the survey was to investigate the integration of mammography screening programmes into breast centres [18]. The secondary objectives were (1) to assess the role of mammography screening programmes in the provision of follow-up for breast cancer patients [19] and (2) to quantify the presence and assess the role of associations of cancer patients and volunteers in breast centres (present study). Of the 128 breast centres associated with Senonetwork in 2020, 82 responded to the survey.