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Breast density campaign helps spur change in province, ripples across Canada
Despite some gains, the fight to raise awareness was dealt a recent major blow, advocates say.Before the September provincial election, Quispamsis resident Kathy Kaufield started an online campaign in hopes party leaders would pledge to ensure New Brunswick women are informed about their breast density and the associated cancer risks.
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Breast density becoming an important issue for accurate screening of cancer
Are you dense? It sounds offensive, but it’s a question Canadians need to be asking, say advocates of a growing awareness campaign about breast density and its relation to increased cancer risk.
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New breast cancer screening guidelines are outdated and dangerous, experts say.
A letter from 130 experts on breast cancer says new screening guidelines proposed by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care are outdated and “dangerous.”
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OPINION: More women will die if new breast screening recommendations adopted
If a Canadian wide-body jet crashed due to maintenance problems, killing all 400 people onboard, it would viewed as a national disaster and would occupy the news for weeks. If this happened each year it would be seen as an epidemic.
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Why Do Canada’s New Breast Cancer Guidelines Advise Against Life-Saving Screenings?
Canadian women should be outraged. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health (CTF) released its latest guidelines for screening for breast cancer for women at average risk.
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Something may be missing in the new breast cancer screening guideline.
This year, more than 26,000 women in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 5,000 will die of it. A new guideline published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal are meant to save lives through early detection. But critics have their doubts.
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OPINION: More women will die if new breast Canada’s new breast screening guidelines will cause unnecessary deaths. recommendations adopted.
Canada’s new breast screening guidelines will cause unnecessary deaths and harm and should be ignored by women and their family physicians, say two of this country’s leading breast screening experts.
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MSP breast density announcement raises concerns.
Health minister Adrian Dix’s announcement that B.C. will be the first province to notify women if they have dense breasts after screening mammograms, and may therefore be at higher risk of cancer, has led to some concerns and confusion about how the information should be used.
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We need to talk about dense breasts: Why governments are taking notice.
When Ann Hill was told she had breast cancer, she was floored. Six months earlier, she had a clear mammogram and the diagnosis seemingly came out of nowhere. But that’s when a doctor told her having dense breasts makes a tumour hard to see, and that her cancer has been there for a while.
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Patients seen more information on breast density
A health advocacy group accusing Quebec of withholding potentially lifesaving information about breast density density from women.
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Great news for women in Nova Scotia: Breast Density Notification Beginss
Dr. Paula Gordon explains why it’s so important for women to know their breast density category and the risks of dense breasts.
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Women’s Experience with the Health Care System
We’re Learning about women’s experience with the health care system with BC Women’s.
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Nova Scotia first province to include breast density results in all mammograms
Nova Scotia has become the first province in Canada to automatically assess breast density. As Elizabeth McSheffrey tells us, high breast density may increase the risk that cancer won’t be detected on a mammogram – making it an important risk factor to identify early.
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The Breast Screening Debate
The Agenda discusses controversy around the effectiveness of mammograms.
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Petition seeks to change breast cancer screening
A doctor with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre says that women should have a mammogram once a year.
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Concerns raised over new breast cancer screening guidelines.
Questions are being raised about whether new breast cancer screening guidelines – recommending that women under the age of 49 not be screened — are putting women at risk. As Heather Yourex-West explains, one cancer survivor diagnosed at 35 is asking why more women like her aren’t being offered routine screens.
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One women’s fight
Breast cancer experts say the lives of hundreds of Canadian women are at risk each year if Canada adopts new screening guidelines.
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Trish Macneill and Dr. Paula Gordon speak about the Issues in Manitoba with regards to breast density.
It can be a more significant risk factor than family history, when it comes to breast cancer. Yet many women are never told about their own breast density. Xiaoli Li speaks with a survivor about what she wishes she knew.
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As the regular season draws to a close, White Coat, Black Art looks back at and updates some of the programs that “made a difference” — by sparking change and shedding light on under-reported issues.
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Dr. Paula Gordon speaks with Stephen Quinn on CBC’s Early Edition.
New breast cancer screening recommendations do more harm than good, argues UBC clinical professor.
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Saskatchewan breast cancer survivor shares how her breast cancer went undetected due to breast density.
Gayle Woloshyn had annual mammograms for 15 years, and yet her breast cancer went undetected. It’s all because she wasn’t told she has dense breasts. In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Gayle joins us now on the line to tell us how she hopes to see things change.
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What you need to know about dense breasts.
Kelly talks to Michelle Di Tomaso, co-founder of Dense Breasts Canada.
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Dense breasts and cancer detection White Coat Black Art.
Cinda Lambert on discovering that her dense breasts made cancer detection difficult on mammograms.
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Dr. Brian Goldman Hosts “White Coat, Black Art”.
Her dense breast tissue hid cancer for years. Now she’s warning others. Fibrous breast tissue can obscure or camouflage cancer in mammograms.In 2014, Michelle Di Tomaso was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. It came as a shock to her because she had undergone four clear mammograms.
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Telling women they have dense breasts could save lives, says cancer survivor.
Telling women they have dense breasts could save lives, says cancer survivor. Most women aren’t routinely informed if they have dense breasts, but the condition can mean cancers are less likely to show up on mammograms. Kathy Kaufield, a cancer survivor and advocate, wants doctors to be mandated to tell women.
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CBC Host Rachel Cave speaks with Kathy Kaufield.
Two years ago, Kathy Kaufield stood in the oncology department of the Saint John Regional Hospital, after completing months of chemotherapy as part of her treatment for breast cancer. She later learned that she has dense breasts, tissue that can obscure a mammogram image. She also learned the denser the breast, the higher the chance of developing cancer.
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