The national breast cancer screening program will shift towards personalised risk-stratified screening over the next decade, under a new plan revealed this month.

The first changes will include beginning to notify women about their breast density, piloting different screening approaches for women aged 45-49 and developing criteria to identify women for annual screening.

The plan, called Strategic Framework for the Future of BreastScreen Australia, is a response to a 2025 national policy and funding review of BreastScreen Australia (BSA), which was published alongside it.

Currently, women aged 50-74 are invited for biennial mammography, while asymptomatic women aged 40 and older can seek free screening through BSA.