Call for NHS to give women with dense breasts extra cancer scans

Supplemental imaging techniques improve cancer detection in women with dense breasts

In women with dense breasts (breasts with relatively low levels of fatty tissue) and a negative mammogram, supplemental imaging techniques detect early-stage cancers, with imaging techniques three times more effective than ultrasound, finds a phase 3 randomized control trial published in The Lancet.

A British study suggests that additional imaging tests could save the lives of many women each year.

Extra cancer screenings for women with dense breasts could save hundreds of lives, study finds

Louise Duffield, a 60-year-old grandmother of four from Ely in Cambridgeshire, was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer as a result of the trial.

Improved breast screening could detect extra 3,500 cancers a year in UK – study

During a clinical trial using additional scans, an extra 85 cancers were found. Improved breast screening in the UK could identify an extra 3,500 cancers per year and save hundreds of lives, researchers have said. A new trial found extra scans for some women can pick up early-stage cancers that remain “hidden” during regular mammograms – more than trebling cancer detection. Researchers from the University of Cambridge are now calling for additio…

Increasing breast cancer screenings could save ‘hundreds of lives a year’

Around 700 lives a year could be saved with extra measures, researchers say

All Spanish women between the ages of 50 and 69 have received (or will receive) an invitation to participate in the programme for the early detection of breast cancer. There are about two million women who are called upon to undergo a biennial mammography with the sole purpose of identifying — and treating — malignant lesions in the chest as soon as possible: in cancer, every minute counts and the sooner the tumor is discovered and attacked, the…