The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy has received funding from the following:
| Funder | Duration |
| Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade | |
| Aus4Innovation – Department of Foreign Trade | 2019-2020 |
| Australian Department of Health | 2011-2013,2018-2021, 2021-2023 |
| Cancer Institute NSW | 2012-2015,2017-2021 |
| China Studies Centre | 2018 |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation | 2012-2017, 2022-2025 |
| National Health and Medical Research Council | 2019-2021 |
| New Zealand Ministry of Health | 2013-2016,2016-2019 |
| Nous Group | 2019 |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology | 2012 |
| Sydney Southeast Asia Centre | 2016-2018 |
| The Faculty of Health Sciences | |
| The University of Sydney Commercial Development & Industry Partnerships | 2018 |
| The University of Sydney Office of Global Engagement | 2020 |
Grant success
October 2019: Our application entitled “Understanding the diagnostic efficacy of radiologists in Shanghai, China using mammographic and tomographic test set images” has been selected for funding in the University of Sydney – Fudan University Partnership collaboration Award (PCA) 2019 round. Our collaboration will introduce the innovative and interactive online platform BREAST to the radiologists in Shanghai, to assess their performance and explore the BREAST platform’s potential to transform cancer detection rates and thereby paving the future for optimised breast cancer interpretation. Our team, Dr. Tong Li, Ms Kriscia Tapia and Prof. Patrick Brennan, along with Dr. Qin Xiao (Radiologist from the Department of Radiology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center) and Prof. Yajia Gu will begin this project in November 2019.
October 2019: Out of 115 applications for outstanding initiatives and potential positive economic and social impacts, our application entitled “VIETRAD: Transforming breast cancer diagnoses across Vietnam” had been selected for the Aus4Innovation Partnership Grant Award. This grant is funded by the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the InnovationXchange (IXC) to help strengthen the Vietnamese innovation system. Our project will partner with the Vietnamese Health Strategy and Policy Institute to develop VIETRAD, an innovation BREAST-type program, tailored for Vietnamese radiologists to improve the skills of local readers in detecting breast cancer. Our team, Prof. Patrick Brennan and Dr. Phuong Trieu (Yun) along with Dr. Tran Thi Mai Oanh (Director of Health Strategy and Policy Institute – Vietnamese Ministry of Health) will kick-off this project in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Hue-Da Nang in 2020.
News
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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…
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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…
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Please meet the latest member of our team Dr Natacha Borecky!
Dr Natacha Borecky is a Doctor in Medicine and Specialist in Radiology graduated from the University Catholic of Brussels (UCL) in Belgium. She had worked several years in general radiology with a special interest in Breast Imaging in Switzerland before moving with her Australian family to Australia 20 years ago. Natacha started working for BreastScreen…