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Canadian woman are now able to participate in a large North American breast cancer screening trial

MAC.22 (TMIST) screening for breast cancer with tomosynthesis mammography

The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Ottawa Hospital are currently enrolling women in the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST), the first randomized trial to compare conventional mammography (2-D) to the newer digital tomosynthesis method (3-D).The large scale North American study was developed by the US based ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG) coordinating the trial in Canada (more national sites will be opening the trial over the next several months).

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For more information about the trial please contact:

CCTG MAC.22 Study Coordinators: WenLing Liu
Dora Baczyk