Patients at risk of developing arm lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment should be offered prophylactic compression sleeves, according to world-first guidance. Axillary reverse mapping and…
In December last year, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists joined calls for widespread breast density reporting to inform patients of their…
All women undergoing routine mammography should be notified of their breast density, the peak body for radiologists says. In a new position statement published in…
Women who receive a false-positive mammography result are 61% more likely to develop breast cancer over the next 20 years than women without a false…
On Wednesday, hundreds of Australian and overseas doctors will attend the opening of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia’s 50th Annual Scientific Meeting in Melbourne.…
Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy at the time of breast cancer surgery in patients with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants cuts the long-term risk of death by…
BreastScreen SA’s decision to notify women of their breast density after routine mammography is “premature” and not supported by “robust evidence”, says a leading cancer…
Women undergoing routine mammography at all BreastScreen SA clinics will now be notified of their individual breast density. The updated policy, which came into effect…
Dr Sandy Minck is angry. At present, 38 states in the US mandate some level of breast density reporting by mammography services and radiologists to…
The brain fog phenomenon widely reported among breast cancer survivors had long eluded medical explanation. But doctors are now one step closer to understanding the…
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