Certainly, if a woman has a history of breast cancer in her family—a first-degree relative—she's going to be given some form of screening ultrasound or mammography, depending on her age, 10 years earlier. I think you're pointing out a really good thing in that a lot of women are falling through the cracks because they're not being assessed. A lot of family doctors don't know a patient's history; they're not doing a risk assessment. There's a tool that takes about two minutes to do called the IBIS tool. We need every family doctor in Canada using this risk assessment tool on women between ages 25 and 30 so we can determine who is high risk and who needs more screening with an MRI annually or whatever else.
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