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Breast Density Workshop Adelaide papers online
https://www.informd.org.au/workshop.html Hi all Here are some of the papers from the workshop - some are not available eg Jennifer Stone on WA as research project as yet unpublished.The one’s I f...
Mary Rickard is a Radiologist. She indicated there is no single agreed way of measuring breast density - a matter identified as an important issue to the medical community by both Wendy Ingaman and Nehmat Houssaini .
She discussed the method used most commonly here and available in private practice but explained software differences generated different cut off points for each of the 4 levels of breast density.
She also addressed the fear of overdiagnosis with risk of false positives and incipient costs in $ and time as not all patients with dense breasts will develop breast cancer.
She discussed the method used most commonly here and available in private practice but explained software differences generated different cut off points for each of the 4 levels of breast density.
She also addressed the fear of overdiagnosis with risk of false positives and incipient costs in $ and time as not all patients with dense breasts will develop breast cancer.