This post was written by Charlotte Kelley Jones. Charlotte is a postgraduate research (PGR) student within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and School… Read More »What are women’s views of personalised breast cancer risk assessment and risk-stratified breast screening?
Gila Pfeffer is a Jewish American writer and humourist currently living in the UK with her husband and four teenage children. Gila is a 13-year… Read More »Feel It On The First: An interview with breast cancer previvor and survivor Gila Pfeffer
This post was written by Charlotte Kelley Jones. Charlotte is a postgraduate research (PGR) student within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and School… Read More »What will women think about introducing risk-stratification to the NHS Breast Screening Programme? A behavioural science perspective.
A friend of mine in her late 40s has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, she spotted it early and it sounds as if… Read More »Breast screening for women in their 40s – what are we waiting for?
Amanda Dibden is a statistician at Queen Mary University of London. Here she highlights the main results from her recently published worldwide review and meta-analysis… Read More »Is mammography screening still worthwhile? The results of a review provide some answers…
In the final of our posts regarding the recent major international evaluation of AI in breast cancer screening, we consider how AI could be used… Read More »Artificial Intelligence in breast cancer screening – part 4: personalising screening
In the third of our posts regarding the recent major international evaluation of AI in breast cancer screening, we consider what might be the implications… Read More »Artificial Intelligence in breast cancer screening – part 3: implications for the UK
Previously we reported on a major study evaluating AI as a tool to identify breast cancer on mammography. The results were impressive. In the UK,… Read More »Artificial Intelligence in breast cancer screening – part 2: international differences
Despite many technological advances in mammographic imaging over the last century, breast cancer screening is largely the same as it was when first studied 60… Read More »Artificial Intelligence in breast cancer screening – part 1: are computers developing 20/20 vision?
On 25th of May 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live. GDPR is designed to protect EU citizens from organisations using their data… Read More »Data protection versus health protection
