@AllyJay Yep,
BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false
positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram
program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false
negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and
BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to
the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate
one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy
(BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate
of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image.
https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a
link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen
Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years
BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15
mm) has been declining.
