Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Breast Cancer
Published 2019Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy in women worldwide and is curable in ~70–80% of patients with early-stage, non-metastatic disease. Advanced breast cancer with distant organ metastases is considered incurable ...Article -
Digital Mammography and Breast Tomosynthesis Performance in Women with a Personal History of Breast Cancer, 2007-2016
Published 2021Background Since 2007, digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) replaced screen-film mammography. Whether these technologic advances have improved diagnostic performance has, to the knowledge of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Informing Women About Overdetection in Breast Cancer Screening: Two-Year Outcomes From a Randomized Trial
Published 2021Background Supporting well-informed decisions about breast cancer screening requires communicating that inconsequential disease may be detected, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Having previously shown that ...Article -
The impact of mandatory mammographic breast density notification on supplemental screening practice in the United States: a systematic review
Published 2021Purpose: Dense breast tissue is an independent risk factor for breast cancer and lowers the sensitivity of screening mammography. Supplemental screening with ultrasound or MRI improves breast cancer detection rate but has ...Article -
Trastuzumab emtansine for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer: Outcomes from a whole-of-population Australian cohort
Published 2021We aim to describe the treatment patterns and overall survival (OS) outcomes in patients receiving trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) for HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (HER2+MBC) in routine clinical care. Methods ...Article