Effect of an Educational Intervention on Women's Health Care Provider Knowledge Gaps About Breast Cancer Risk Model Use and High-risk Screening Recommendations.

Objective: To assess effectiveness of a web-based educational intervention on women's health care provider knowledge of breast cancer risk models and high-risk screening recommendations.

Methods: A web-based pre- and post-test study including 177 U.S.

Implementing the National Dense Breast Reporting Standard, Expanding Supplemental Screening Using Current Guidelines, and the Proposed Find It Early Act.

Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia (DC) have dense breast notification laws that mandate varying levels of patient notification about breast density after a mammogram, and these cover over 90% of American women. On March 10, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule amending regulations under the Mammography Quality Standards Act for a national dense breast reporting standard for both patient results letters and mammogram reports. Effective September 10, 2024, letters will be required to tell a woman her breasts are "dense" or "not dense," that dense tissue makes it harder to find cancers on a mammogram, and that it increases the risk of developing cancer.

Effect of an educational intervention on women's healthcare provider knowledge gaps about breast density, breast cancer risk, and screening.

Objectives: We sought to assess the effect of an educational intervention, based on DenseBreast-info.org website content, on women's healthcare provider knowledge of breast density, its risk and screening implications, and comfort level discussing these topics with patients.

Methods: US-based women's healthcare providers participated in a web-based pretest/posttest study from May 14, 2019 to September 30, 2019.

Radiologic Technologist and Radiologist Knowledge Gaps about Breast Density Revealed by an Online Continuing Education Course.

Objective: We sought to identify provider knowledge gaps and their predictors, as revealed by a breast density continuing education course marketed to the radiology community.

Methods: The course, continually available online during the study period of November 2, 2016 and December 31, 2018, includes demographics collection; a monograph on breast density, breast cancer risk, and screening; and a post-test. Four post-test questions were modified during the study period, resulting in different sample sizes pre- and postmodification.

Comment on Thigpen D. et al. The Role of Ultrasound in Screening Dense Breasts-A Review of the Literature and Practical Solutions for Implementation. 2018, , 20.

We read with interest the article by Thigpen et al. [1]. With 34 states now having some form of density inform legislation[.

Breast density and impacts on health.

The World Health Organization states 'Early detection in order to improve breast cancer outcome and survival remains the cornerstone of breast cancer control' [WHO (World Health Organization) (2017) Available from: http://www.who.int/cancer/detection/breastcancer/en/].