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IN THE MEDIA

Should women know about their breast density? It's an issue dividing doctors and patients

25/5/2023

 
InforMD's Prof John Hopper spoke to Bridget Judd at the ABC about why breast density matters in the detection and risk of breast cancer.

High breast density appears as white areas on a mammogram. As cancers also show up white on a mammogram, density can mask breast cancer. Because of this, breast density can be used as "a predictor of what we call the interval cancer", explained Prof Hopper. "That's when you have a mammogram and you're given the all clear, and then in the interval before the next screen, the woman has a lump or whatever and it's diagnosed as a cancer," he said. "They tend to be nastier than screen-detected cancers."

Prof Hopper also explained about the risk of developing breast cancer in women with high density, and highlighted that with advancements in testing, high density is found to only "really a problem" in about the "very extreme" one per cent. "My analogy is driving a car with faulty brakes — if you leave and the weather's fine and there's not much traffic around, you can get away with it," he said. "But once something starts to happen that puts you at risk, such as your environment changes or your underlying risk factors change because of bad weather and things like that, suddenly having faulty brakes is a real problem."

Dr Sandy Minck, Dr Alia Kaderbhai and Kirsten Pilatti, CEO of Breast Cancer Network Australia were also interviewed. "Women who are concerned about about their breast cancer risk should chat to their GP about their breast cancer risk as a whole and the topic of breast density can come into that," said Dr Kaderbhai.

Read the full article here.

Dense breasts linked to family history of breast cancer

31/3/2022

 
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INFORMD's A/Prof Wendy Ingman spoke to Mariella Attard about new U.S. research study suggesting that premenopausal women with a strong family history of breast cancer are more likely to have dense breasts.
Read the full article here.

Dense-breasted women dilemma

30/1/2017

 
Dense breasts are at higher risk of cancer but the dense tissue makes cancer hard to spot. What to do?

Some argue women should be told about their breast density when they have a mammogram. Others disagree.

New research about what might help reduce breast density and therefore cancer risk, has raised the debate once more.

Wendy Ingman discusses her latest research on the cause of increased breast density and cancer risk with Dr Norman Swan on the ABC Health Report on Radio National.

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Funding success for exciting new breast cancer research project

11/1/2017

 
World-leading Victorian cancer researchers have been given a $7 million funding package to further discoveries that could potentially save lives. Over a dozen of the state’s most elite cancer researchers will share in the state government grants to help develop cures and preventive treatments for various forms of life-threatening cancers.

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre researcher and INFORMD member Dr Kara Britt will use the funding to investigate breast cancer therapies based on a protein found in healthy breasts, and more so in women who have had a pregnancy. Pregnancy in young women is known to reduce a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer but little is understood about why this is. Through understanding the biological pathways that cause pregnancy to protect women against breast cancer, Dr Britt hopes to develop new therapies against breast cancer and maybe even prevent breast cancer from occurring in the first place, "This funding is critically important for us to progress our research trying to find new breast cancer treatments and potential preventatives." she says.
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Dr Kara Britt will study novel biological pathways that can prevent and treat breast cancer.

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