MRI scans for women with dense breast tissue will be included in mass screenings for breast cancer following a feasibility study by public health organisation RIVM, caretaker junior health minister Judith Tielen has said in a briefing to MPs. One in 12 women between 50 and 70 who participate in the mass screening has dense breast tissue. They are at greater risk of developing tumours, but detection is more difficult, putting them at greater risk of advanced breast cancer. “It is the most practical way of giving women with dense breast tissue access to an additional MRI scan in case their results are not clear,” charity director Cristina Guerrero Paz told broadcaster NOS. It will also become clear if all women will be informed if they have dense breast tissue or not as part of the screening