{"id":600698,"date":"2026-08-22T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:40:11","slug":"japans-breast-cancer-screening-rules-take-a-big-belated-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/600698\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s breast cancer screening rules take a big, belated step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June, a health ministry official revealed in a parliamentary Q&amp;A session with a lawmaker that the government will soon start informing women undergoing municipal breast cancer screenings about their breast density, reversing the government\u2019s longtime opposition to disclosing the information.<\/p>\n<p>Notifying women about their breast characteristics, not a disease, may sound like a simple change.<\/p>\n<p>But for people who had fought for years for fuller disclosure of mammogram test results as well as the test\u2019s limitations, the policy change marked a significant and potentially life-saving policy shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In June, a health ministry official revealed in a parliamentary Q&amp;A session with a lawmaker that the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1239,258,103,61,60,4599],"class_list":["post-600698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}