MRI screening for BRCA1 mutation carriers tied to lower breast cancer mortality
Women with the BRCA1 pathogenic variant are 80% less likely to die from breast cancer if they undergo MRI surveillance, according to an international team…
Women with the BRCA1 pathogenic variant are 80% less likely to die from breast cancer if they undergo MRI surveillance, according to an international team…
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…
One in five young BRCA pathogenic variant carriers conceive within 10 years of breast cancer diagnosis, according to study in the Journal of the American…
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…
The incidence of local recurrence at five years is low among women over 55 years with early-stage breast cancer who were treated with breast-conserving surgery…
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…
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