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Article History

Received: 20 May 2025

Accepted: 3 November 2025

First Online: 26 November 2025

Declarations

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: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because it is a Clinical Audit of a technical development. This study was conducted in accordance with the routine quality assurance procedures established by the Local Health Authority for its screening programs. The Reggio Emilia Cancer Registry, which routinely collects the screening history of each case of breast cancer, has been approved by the Provincial Ethics Committee (Ref. No. 2014/0019740 of 4 August 2014). The Ethics Committee authorized, even in the absence of consent, the processing of personal data, including those suitable for revealing the state of health of patients who are deceased or untraceable for the execution of the study. At our Institution, patients provide consent that includes the use of their health data for purposes of public interest, such as healthcare provision, administrative requirements, and activities of programming, management, control, and statistical analysis. The analyses were conducted under the mandate of the Medical Direction and the submission of the study as a scientific report for publication was formally approved by the Scientific Direction of our Institution.