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  • Group of people in pink shirts with arms up and smiling
    Team BreastScreen WA at Mother's Day Classic 12 May 2025 BreastScreen WA staff had a wonderful time supporting breast and ovarian cancer research at the Mother's Day Classic yesterday! Staff either ran 10km or 5km, or walked 5km across the beautiful course, starting from Victoria Gardens, crossing Matagarup Bridge, along the Burswood foreshore and then Claisebrook Cove, all with stunning views of the Swan River. The team of 22 included BreastScreen WA's own Director Dr Emmeline Lee, radiologists, radiographers, and administrative, IT and Health Promotion staff and their families. Thank you also to Dr Julia Feutrill who took part sporting BreastScreen WA’s pink t-shirt. The team enjoyed a well-deserved brunch together after all their efforts. The team has raised over $2600 towards this important cause. Well done all!
  • Portrait of Dr Emmeline Lee
    Appointment of New BreastScreen WA Director 30 January 2025 We are pleased to announce that Dr Emmeline Lee has been appointed as Director of BreastScreen WA commencing with a two-week transition period on the 17th February 2025. Dr Lee’s appointment will have a focus on leadership, culture and driving the organisation into the future, alongside the very capable management team. Dr Lee is a locally trained radiologist with 20 years of experience in Wom...
  • Breast Cancer Awareness display at Canning Medical Centre Fremantle
    Health Promotion in the Practice Winner 06 December 2024 Medical practices promote breast screening for Breast Cancer Awareness month in October For 23 years, BreastScreen WA has held a Health Promotion in the Practice competition, encouraging medical practices to promote the importance of breast screening and breast awareness with their patients and local community. This is achieved through creative initiatives within the practice, including decorating...
  • VIP Guests standing for a photo
    Pink Ribbon Breakfast 2024 Recap 12 November 2024 BreastScreen WA’s 19th annual Pink Ribbon Breakfast at Fraser’s Kings Park was a great success with 140 attendees coming together to celebrate the achievements and supporters of BreastScreen WA. We were honoured to have Aunty Dot Bagshaw complete a Welcome to Country and have Ms Emily Hamilton MLA (Member for Joondalup), representing the Health Minister, the Hon. Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA. Ms Ha...
  • Matagarup Bridge Sunset
    Matagarup Bridge Goes Pink! 29 October 2024 The Matagarup Bridge turned pink last night in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month and BreastScreen WA staff were there to mark this important occasion. Some amazing photos were captured, we may be biased but we think the bridge looks pretty great in pink! You may have seen other landmarks in pink also with Joondalup Drive Bridge, Matagarup Bridge, Mount Street Bridge, Northbridge Tunnel,...

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  • Photo of audience from PRB 2021
    Pink Ribbon Breakfast 2022 is announced for October 24th 08 August 2022 Lock it in your diaries- BreastScreen WA's annual Pink Ribbon Breakfast is happening on Monday October 24th this year. The event is held at Fraser's Restaurant in King's Park and will feature a delicious breakfast and talks from two incredible guest speakers. These will be the Hon Ayor Makur Chuot and Jane Armstrong, pictured below. Follow the EventBrite link herefor more details and to purchase tickets to this fantastic event.
  • Mobile screening truck at EWE with information booth
    BreastScreen WA returns to EveryWoman Expo 2022! 10 June 2022 BreastScreen WA returns to EveryWoman Expo with the mobile screening truck for the second year running, with the goal of screening as many eligible women as possible over the three day event. Eligible women over 40 attending the Expo will have exclusive access to appointments for that weekend on the mobile screening truck situated on the Expo floor. Last year, at the truck's Expo debut, BreastScreen WA’s hard-working radiographers screened 136 women, and spoke to over 750, handing out resources and pink merchandise. This year, BreastScreen WA is more equipped and ready to screen even more women with more staff and more available appointments. EveryWoman Expo is this weekend, from Fri 17- Sun 19 June. The Expo will see over 150 businesses featuring health, beauty, fashion, food, love, lifestyle, fitness, spiritual solutions and more. Popular attractions include fashion catwalks, emp...
  • People over 55 celebrating at the beach
    Positive Ageing Expo for over 55s 31 May 2022 BreastScreen WA will have a stall at the Positive Ageing Expo for 55+! The 2022 Positive AgeingExpo promotes and encourages healthy lifestyle and wellness opportunities for our over 55s community.Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy a wide variety of 50stalls, engaging activities, health checks, discussion corners ortry something new. When:Thursday 2 June | 10am–2pm Where:Walyalup Civic Centre, 151 High Street Fremantle, Walyalup Koort This is a free event. Click here for more information.
  • Frontage of new Joondalup clinic
    BreastScreen WA launches brand new clinic in Joondalup 13 May 2022 BreastScreen WA celebrated the launch of a brand-new state-of-the-art screening and assessment centre located in Joondalup. Distinguished guests included the Hon Amber-Jade Sanderson Minister for Health, as well as Dr Jodi Graham WNHS Executive Director, Dr Shirley Bowen Chief Executive North Metropolitan Health Service, Nicole Flendt Nurse Co-Director WNHS, Emily Hamilton MLA member for Joondalup and Mayor of Joondalup Albert Jacob. The Minister for Health officially opened the new facility and recognised the “champions” of this monumental project. Noongar Elder Auntie Marie Taylor performed a Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony to cleanse and ward off bad spirits. The new facility will be able to perform 11,000 screens per year, as well as provide diagnostic mammography, ultrasound, and biopsy services in the Perth Northern corridor. Murals featuring a world map and ima...
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    BreastScreen WA and the University of WA 21 March 2022 Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the world. There is currently no available screening tool to identify which women have a high risk of developing heart disease, but there is evidence emerging to indicate calcification forming along the walls of the arteries within the breast is associated with heart disease. This calcification is a common finding on a screening mammogram, although it is not reported because it is not associated with breast cancer. It is possible that the already established mammography screening program could also be useful to screen for heart disease. To investigate this possibility, we are conducting Australia’s first study to determine if breast artery calcification is associated with heart disease in women. A selection of women aged 40 to 75 with no history of heart disease attending for their screening mammogram will be invited to participa...
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Last Updated: 17/01/2023

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