Beyond Mammography: Sovereignty and Relational Breast Care With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women.

Devaleena Das, Jessica Gildersleeve, Amy Thomson, Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood, Lorelle Holland

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Article in The Medical journal of Australia, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Devaleena DasDepartment of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8394-2113

Jessica GildersleeveSchool of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-5615

Amy ThomsonSchool of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

Aunty Gracelyn SmallwoodSchool of Public Health, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Lorelle HollandARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1389-5718

Funding

ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures CE230100027

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite Australia's universal breast screening programs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have lower screening participation rates and higher breast cancer mortality. Public health explanations focus on awareness of breast cancer risk and the accessibility of screening, yet these framings often overlook how biomedical screening practices assume a colonial anatomical lens of the body that does not align with Indigenous relational understandings of embodiment. Drawing on Indigenous scholarship, feminist body theory and trauma-aware care, this article argues that breast screening encounters can become sites where bodily sovereignty and biomedical surveillance intersect. Relational, culturally safe, healing-centred and sovereignty-affirming practices, supported by Indigenous-led initiatives, such as culturally designed screening shawls, can transform screening from a clinical encounter into health care that offers a therapeutic relationship built on trust, dignity and informed consent.

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Breast NeoplasmsEarly Detection of CancerHealth Services, IndigenousMammographyAustraliaAustralian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PeoplesFemaleHumansbreast neoplasmsculturemammography

Identifiers

PMID42413916

DOI10.5694/mja2.70245

PMCPMC13341196

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