Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar

Professor John Hopper and Dr Kevin Nguyen

Location: MSPGH, Seminar Room515, L5, 207 Bouverie Street, CARLTON

Mammographic density and other measures based on a mammographic image are the strongest known risk factors for breast cancer on a population basis, automated measures from digital mammograms are being improved, some of these measures also predict women likely to have existing tumours missed by mammography and could be used to address the issue of ‘dense breasts’ that is a major concern for women and screening services, many millions of women worldwide are having digital mammograms (and in Australia most are paid for by the government), other risk factors such as multi-generational family history are also routinely collected from women undergoing screening, tailored screening designed to make mammographic screening more effective could become a reality, and understanding the biology and genetics behind mammography-based risk measures could give new insights into the aetiology of breast cancer.

This presentation is a practice for some of the talks to be made at the 5^th international Why Mammographic Density Workshop to be held at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer on October 10^th – 11^th, 2018.