Contrast-based imaging is the most sensitive, but ICYMI, our paper showing the value of supplemental breast ultrasound screening for women with C and D densities (especially in resource-limited jurisdictions) has just been published.@JeanSeely.

RT @CanadaSBI: 🎉Thank you to all our amazing speakers & attendees for making this year’s ASM a success!. We explored the expanding role of….

Ontario started allowing self referral at age 40 in October last year, but so far only 14% of eligible women age 40 to 49 are attending. Hopefully that will increase. And hopefully they will increase resources to allow access to all eligible women.

Good news for Canadians. The existing guidelines from @cantaskforce have lead to avoidable deaths and suffering, from breast and other cancers, and many other health conditions. . This is a good start.

For those who don’t know, BAC stands for breast arterial calcification, and that can be a sign of early coronary artery disease. And it’s a freebie since women have mammograms. Heart disease kills more women than breast cancer, so it’s worthwhile knowing!.

RT @DenseBreastInfo: BreastScreen Australia will now notify women of their breast density after routine mammograms!.Huge win for transparen….

RT @jenniedale24: Sadly, current Cdn breast screening guidelines do not recognize racial disparities. @cantaskforce recommendation to scree….

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This is why all women in 🇨🇦 deserve screening mammograms starting at age 40, and up to at least age 80. Women with dense breasts need supplemental screening with MRI, US or CEM so their cancers can also be detected early, saving lives, and providing better quality of life.

Unlike MRI, ultrasound is inexpensive, but there aren’t enough technologists. We are finding more than double the cancers in 🇨🇦 with ultrasound than in 🇺🇸 because we screen less often, and with only 2D mammograms. It should be offered by more clinics.

This is one of the fallouts from @cantaskforce recommending no breast cancer screening till age 50. Primary care doctors are led to believe that younger women don’t get breast cancer and then this happens.

Required reading for academics and philanthropists. University of Toronto is scandalously burying the fact that the study they endorsed was flawed. By not retracting their approval, they continue to contribute to avoidable deaths around the world.

I’m so sorry you have to go through more aggressive therapy, than if you’d been diagnosed at an earlier stage. Your voice matters, and it’s generous of you to have shared your story. Hopefully other women will self-advocate after hearing it.

We’re finding large numbers of invasive cancers using ultrasound in women with negative mammograms with dense breasts. The vast majority are in women in category c who have no family history. And most are node-negative .

In 🇨🇦 that voice is @jenniedale24 from @densebreastscdn. We don’t legislate change like in 🇺🇸, but thanks to her, most women in Canada can now self refer for mammograms starting at 40, and most are told their breast density in their report. Lots more work to do!.

RT @DenseBreastInfo: Join us at #SBI2025 for Keynote Speaker DBI’s @JoAnnPushkin, with @DrPaulaGordon, Dr Georgia Spear, and others, for Ke….

RT @DenseBreastInfo: Are you over 40? Did you know 40% of women over the age of 40 have #DenseBreasts? Learn why that matters and what you….

Welcome home @DrJenGunter !.You’re going to love BC. Ski season is still going strong. 21cm expected Thursday @WhistlerBlckcmb. And registration is open for @rbcgranfondo.

Great chat with @survivornetca and @jenniedale24 detailing how @densebreastscdn got going, and all the improvements to breast screening in Canada they've achieved. Still loads of inequities between provinces and policies to change across the board. Onward!.

Grateful to @ftvnews for helping educate Asian women about the importance of mammography screening starting @40, and supplemental screening for women with breasts. Asian women tend to get breast cancer younger than white women, and they’re more likely to have dense breasts.