Conference Proceedings
The estimated impact of improved breast screening tests targeted at women with dense breasts
Pietro Procopio, Louiza Velentzis, A Dennis Petrie, G Bruce Mann, Anne M Kavanagh, A Ray Watson, Karinna Saxby, Elizabeth Korevaar, Sarah Carr, Hannah Bromley, Karen Canfell, Carolyn Nickson
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2021
Abstract
Abstract Background There is increasing interest in risk-based breast cancer screening, including interventions to improve outcomes for women with mammographically dense breasts. Methods Policy1-Breast is a continuous-time, multiple-cohort micro-simulation whole-population model which incorporates breast cancer risk, life-course breast density, menopause, hormone therapy use and screening participation. Outcomes include cancer diagnoses and characteristics (invasive/DCIS, tumour size, grade), mode of detection (screen-detected/interval/other) and mortality (breast cancer an..
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