BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2025

Terminology

This report uses the terms ‘participant’ and ‘participants’ when referring to data collected under BreastScreen Australia. These data are not restricted by sex or gender, with all participants in breast screening included in these data.

For breast cancer screening data, ‘participant’ or ‘participants’ is defined as a person having breast tissue that is suitable for breast cancer screening and who has engaged BreastScreen Australia through a screening and/or assessment appointment or visit.

Screening participants may include women, transgender men, transgender women, non-binary people or other gender diverse people. State and territory BreastScreen services provide advice on BreastScreen and gender, including whether screening for breast cancer may benefit transgender women, transgender men, non-binary, and gender diverse people.

This report uses the term 'women' to mean ‘female' when referring to cancer incidence data and cancer mortality data, as these data sources are based on sex assigned at birth. However, it should be noted that some people may not identify with this term.

This report uses the term ‘breast’ to refer to the tissue affected by breast cancer. While the term ‘breast’ may be used as a gendered word in some instances, its use in this report is non-gendered and medical.