Revealed: The radical overhaul of cancer screening to detect most at risk

A radical overhaul of Australia’s breast cancer screening will implement a risk-based approach to detect cancers earlier with new technologies beyond mammograms, replacing the current one-size-fits-all, age-based model.

A radical overhaul of Australia’s breast cancer screening will implement a risk-based approach to detect cancers earlier with new technologies beyond mammograms, replacing the current one-size-fits-all, age-based model.

A new risk assessment system called Boadicea, developed by Cambridge and funded by Cancer Research UK identified eight times as many women in the age group who would develop breast cancer in comparison to current guidelines

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women under 50 in the UK