Breast Cancer: Density Matters: Recent Episodes
Micrima Ltd
Micrima Ltd and our guests discuss breast density and its affects on breast cancer and breast screening. We chat to patients, scientists and radiologists to understand and explore why breast density matters and to discover what the future of breast screening could look like.
Micrima Ltd are in the later stages of creating a radiowave based imaging system that aims to deliver safe and effective breast cancer screening and a breast density score.
In the last episode of the series we discuss how screening for breast cancer is currently carried out with Professor Iain Lyburn. We chat about interesting new techniques that might be useful in breast cancer detection in the future.
Micrima chat to Dr Sarah Vinnicombe from Thirlestaine Breast Centre, Cheltenham UK who tells us how screening differs around the world. In this podcast Sarah refers to leaflets for self check from Breast Cancer Now: https://breastcancernow.org/information-support/publication/know-your-breasts-guide-breast-awareness-screening-bcc2
In this episode we talk to Sue Astley, Professor of Intelligent Medical Imaging at The University of Manchester to discover more about what dense breast tissue is and how it affects women.
In this episode we chat with Clare, a breast cancer patient with very dense breasts. She knows this now but didn't for some time. Clare talks about what this means to her and why she thinks its important women have more information about breast density.
An introduction to Breast Cancer: Density Matters - What is it and why does it matter? We'll be setting the scene for what will be covered in the first series and how to learn more about Micrima's new breast scanning system MARIA.