BREAST CANCER SCREENING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A TURNING POINT IN THE ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH GUIDELINES

The update of the national Guidelines on 23 December 2025 marks a turning point for cancer prevention in Italy. For the first time, the national panel, adopting the GRADE methodology, issued a conditional recommendation in favor of using an AI-based triage strategy for reading mammograms within breast cancer screening programs. Question 3: a strategic innovation…

Tomosynthesis and Artificial Intelligence: the ASSURE study shows a +21.6% increase in breast cancer detection

An analysis of over half a million women in the United States confirms that artificial intelligence, applied to tomosynthesis (3D mammography), improves cancer detection without increasing false positives. The results reinforce a key premise: to make screening more effective, it is not enough to “see more,” but to see better. This is the logic behind…