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Associate Professor Wendy Ingman is a Hospital Research Foundation (THRF) Associate Professor of Breast Cancer Research and National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) Fellow. She is also Lead Researcher at the Breast Biology & Cancer Unit, Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research at the University of Adelaide and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
A number of options for supplemental screening are available for women with dense breasts, including 3D mammography, ultrasound, and MRI. At the moment, BreastScreen WA recommends that if women have other breast cancer risk factors in addition to high density, that they might benefit from having an ultrasound in addition to their mammogram. However, there is currently a lot of confusion about what women with dense breasts should do, and Australia urgently needs national clinical guidelines for how to manage breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts.
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