STEM gruop

High School STEM program

Since 2016, the BREAST team has helped students from a rural NSW high school explore research questions around how radiologists detect breast cancers on mammograms. Using data from the BREAST databank and involving radiologists from all over the world, Year 9 to 11 students from St. Matthew’s High School in Mudgee are working to help our understanding of performance variations in different countries where screening programs may or may not be in place. The students will be traveling with the BREAST team to Vietnam this year to help collect new data. Read more about it here.

News

  • New BREAST test set alert:

    ‘High breast density’ was released at the BreastScreen Conference. In March 2024, the BREAST team ran a workshop at the BreastScreen conference in Canberra. We released our latest test set ‘High breast density’ which contains 60 cases and 2 CPD hours can be claimed. In addition, for the first time, we offered our sessions to…