Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Now the problem is,

If you have family history of breast cancer, or if you have a biopsy that shows atypia at some point in your life, that will significantly increase your lifetime risk of breast cancer.

Why is that important?

Again, there are three buckets for breast cancer risk.

Low risk is less than 15%.

Intermediate risk is 15 to 20% and high risk is 20% or more.

Why am I bringing this up?

If your lifetime risk of breast cancer is 20% or more, you can start breast imaging at 30, not 40.

How about that?

It's a very simple formula.

Patients can do it at home.

See, you don't need your doctor to do this for you.

Empowered.

That's why women can do this at home.

It's a formula called Tyrecusic Risk Assessment Tool.

I have it on GMD.

It's free.

You can literally go on there and calculate your lifetime risk of breast cancer.

It asks you for your age, height, weight, density of the breast, which you can only get the density of the breast from your breast imaging mammogram or your MRI.

Usually the radiologists make a comment of whether or not you have fibroglandular, fatty breast, heterogeneously dense or extremely dense breast.