Dense Breasts Canada

Nova Scotia leads country in optimal breast screening practices, but continues to fail women with dense breasts - Halifax Examiner As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, it’s a time to celebrate progress and to address where we’re still falling short.

Women with dense breasts in Nova Scotia are being denied potentially life saving screening. Our Op-Ed www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/n...

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For #BCAM, know the "rule of 40s": start mammography at age 40 for 40% reduction in risk of death due to #breastcancer and easier treatments. For the 40% of women with #densebreasts, 40% of cancers are missed on mammography and adding MRI helps; US if MRI not possible. @densebreastinfo.bsky.social

Celebrating 1 year of self-referral for mammograms at 40 in Ontario. What a difference it's making. Here is Nicole's story youtu.be/EoWmQv9dcJU

Join us in demanding our provincial health ministers commit to better breast screening for Canadians with dense breasts. Lives depend on it. Add your voice here: www.densebreastscanada.ca/make-your-vo...

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Have you had a mammogram and been told you have dense breasts?
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Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!

Imaging linked to blood cancers in children and adolescents Researchers suggest that medical imaging may be associated with 10.1% of hematologic cancers.

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If you are a GP or a NP this FREE CME is for you. Oct.18 8am ET. Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Scientists Find a Way to Stop Breast Cancer From Coming Back Dormant “sleeper” cancer cells, long untouchable, can now be destroyed with common drugs, stopping breast cancer from returning.

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Not Too Young for breast cancer. Read Kelsey's story www.densebreastscanada.ca/kelsey/

Doctors are seeing more non-smokers, especially women, with later-stage lung cancer Although smoking remains the leading risk factor, the Canadian Cancer Society estimates about a quarter of lung cancer cases in the country are non-smokers.

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Breast screening practices in Canada. Your postal code determines your access to early detection. www.densebreastscanada.ca/wp-content/u...

New research shows that respiratory infections like COVID or flu may “wake up” dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs—potentially leading to metastasis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate; it isn’t particular to whether your history is on your family’s paternal or maternal side." Read Lindsay's story here www.densebreastscanada.ca/lindsay/

"I am living proof that supplemental breast cancer screening can save lives..." Read Denise's story: www.densebreastscanada.ca/submit-your-...

Stories like Kandis' show the importance of knowing one's breast density and the need for all Canadian women with dense breasts to have access to supplemental screening.
www.densebreastscanada.ca/kandis/

Comparison of supplemental breast cancer imaging techniques—interim results from the BRAID randomised controlled trial Abbreviated MRI and contrast-enhanced mammography detected three times as many invasive cancers compared with ABUS, with cancers being half the size. This study shows that supplemental imaging could l...

Important results @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social from UK BRAID trial. Added invasive breast cancer detection of 15/1000 for MRI, 4.2/1000 for ABUS, or 15.7 for contrast-enhanced mammography, after normal 2D mammogram in dense breasts. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thank you Dr Wilkinson, I appreciate this so much. It’s almost every day that I talk to women in my dm’s about accessing screening and I can’t wait for it to move from a whisper network to good and fair guidelines for all Canadians.

Canadians need to talk about cancer screening Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives.

We to talk have a serious discussion about #cancer screening. Canada’s cancer screening guidelines lag far behind the latest science, and Canadians are paying with their lives, by Dr. Anna Wilkinson canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/10/c... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social @nicktsergas.ca

Thank you @drpaulagordon.bsky.social @jeanseelymd.bsky.social for this important research. Ultrasound screening significantly improves cancer detection in women with dense breasts (categories c and d). We have the technology. Let's use it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 percent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68 percent, according to a new report from the International Agenc...

Alarming! We need action in 🇨🇦 to ensure breast cancer can be found early. That starts with revision of national guidelines which dangerously recommend screening starting at 50. We need reform of the @cantaskforce.bsky.social panel which has no subject matter experts. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Supplemental screening in women with dense breasts is proven, via studies starting 30 years ago, to find additional cancers missed in mammography. Modalities such as ultrasound, MRI and CEM all find significant numbers of missed cancers. Tanja knew she had been denied a chance for remission.

It was an honour to advocate with Tanja Harrison. Thank you to Aly Thomson and CBCNova Scotia for this segment looking at the tragic impact of denying supplemental screening to women with dense breasts in 🇨🇦 We have the technology, Let's use it! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We're making progress 🇨🇦 but still a ways to go for optimal and equitable screening. Missing from this chart is supplemental screening for dense breasts and high-risk programs because so few provinces offer them. Let's give all Canadians the best chance to find breast cancer early!