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Nova Scotia leads country in optimal breast screening practices, but continues to fail women with dense breasts

November 17, 2025

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, it’s a time to celebrate progress and to address where we’re still falling short. Nova Scotia’s breast screening program has led…

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DBC speaks to the Canadian Press about the Canadian Task Force

June 26, 2025
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Breast screening at age 40 not routinely advised, Canadian task force says.

July 3, 2024

People should be able to get a mammogram starting at age 40 but it shouldn’t be routinely offered to women under 50 who are of average risk, new Canadian screening…

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Canada won’t lower breast cancer screening guidelines to 40, despite expert pushback

July 3, 2024

Canada’s guidelines for routine breast cancer screenings will remain unchanged, despite mounting pressure from medical experts who have labelled them as “dangerous.”

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Sask. breast cancer patients, advocates call for change to new screening guidelines.

July 3, 2024

Advocates for breast cancer awareness are calling for reforms to Canada’s new breast cancer screening guidelines that were released last week.

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Critics slam Canadian breast screening guidelines.

July 3, 2024

Breast imaging organizations and political bodies are criticizing updated guidelines on breast cancer screening by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC).

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Task force lambasted for holding firm on breast cancer screening advice.

July 3, 2024

Several cancer experts, surgeons and radiologists swiftly condemned a national task force’s draft decision not to lower the recommended routine breast cancer screening age to 40 on Thursday.

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These women were told they were too young to get a mammogram. Then they were diagnosed with breast cancer in their 40s

June 13, 2023

Canadian guidelines say women should start getting mammograms at age 50 unless they have specific risk factors. The U.S. is updating their guideline to start at age 40 and some…

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Ontario exploring beginning breast screening ten years earlier — at age 40 — something advocates have long pushed for

June 8, 2023

OTTAWA- November 24, 2021 – Jennifer Quaid, an Ottawa law prof who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer just after she turned 50. She had asked for a mammogram…

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TV Spots

Advocates call on Nova Scotia to update its breast cancer screening policy

November 17, 2025

There are bolstered calls from advocates for Nova Scotia to change its policy on supplemental breast cancer screening. This, after the federal health minister paused a task force that designs…

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Canada won’t lower breast cancer screening guidelines to 40, despite expert pushback

July 3, 2024

Canada’s guidelines for routine breast cancer screenings will remain unchanged, despite mounting pressure from medical experts who have labelled them as “dangerous.”

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Sask. breast cancer patients, advocates call for change to new screening guidelines.

July 3, 2024

Advocates for breast cancer awareness are calling for reforms to Canada’s new breast cancer screening guidelines that were released last week.

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CTV National News: Breast cancer screenings

July 3, 2024

New guidelines in Canada suggest not all women in their 40s should be routinely screening for breast cancer. Judy Trinh explains.

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The U.S. may lower the breast cancer screening age to 40. Should Canada follow?

June 8, 2023

OTTAWA- November 24, 2021 – Jennifer Quaid, an Ottawa law prof who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer just after she turned 50. She had asked for a mammogram…

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Patient Advocate Shira Farber speaks to Global news about the impact of being denied a mammogram in her 40s

November 3, 2022

Breast cancer survivor calls for access to routine mammograms for all Canadian women in their 40s

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Patient Colleen Packer speaks to CTV Calgary about being denied a mammogram in her 40s

April 11, 2022

Early screening: Cancer patients call on province to pave way for early breast cancer screening

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DBC’s Director of Advocacy and Education, Quebec,

February 21, 2022

Annie Slight speaks to CTV Montreal about breast density and how information is not directly shared with the women of Quebec about an important breast cancer risk

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Early Detection of Breast Cancer Saves Lives

October 15, 2021

CTV Morning Live Vancouver with Dr. Paula Gordon

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Radio Interviews

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Dr. Paula Gordon speaks with Stephen Quinn on CBC’s Early Edition.

January 11, 2019

New breast cancer screening recommendations do more harm than good, argues UBC clinical professor.

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Saskatchewan breast cancer survivor shares how her breast cancer went undetected due to breast density.

October 1, 2018

Gayle Woloshyn had annual mammograms for 15 years, and yet her breast cancer went undetected. It’s all because she wasn’t told she has dense breasts. In honour of Breast Cancer…

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What you need to know about dense breasts.

September 20, 2018

Kelly talks to Michelle Di Tomaso, co-founder of Dense Breasts Canada.

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Dense breasts and cancer detection White Coat Black Art.

September 15, 2018

Cinda Lambert on discovering that her dense breasts made cancer detection difficult on mammograms.

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Dr. Brian Goldman Hosts “White Coat, Black Art”.

September 15, 2018

Her dense breast tissue hid cancer for years. Now she’s warning others. Fibrous breast tissue can obscure or camouflage cancer in mammograms.In 2014, Michelle Di Tomaso was diagnosed with advanced…

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Telling women they have dense breasts could save lives, says cancer survivor.

September 12, 2018

Telling women they have dense breasts could save lives, says cancer survivor. Most women aren’t routinely informed if they have dense breasts, but the condition can mean cancers are less…

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CBC Host Rachel Cave speaks with Kathy Kaufield.

August 31, 2018

Two years ago, Kathy Kaufield stood in the oncology department of the Saint John Regional Hospital, after completing months of chemotherapy as part of her treatment for breast cancer. She…

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