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Especially for breast cancer, current imaging-based screening methods suffer from high false positive rates for women with breast nodules, leading to unnecessary biopsies, which add to discomfort and healthcare burden. Here, we enrolled 613 female participants in this multi-center study and demonstrated that cfDNA fragmentomics (cfFrag) is a robust non-invasive biomarker for breast cancer using whole-genome sequencing. Among the multimodal cfFrag profiles, the fragment size ratio (FSR), fragment size distribution (FSD), and copy number variation (CNV) show more distinguishing ability than Griffin, motif breakpoint (MBP), and neomer. The cfFrag model using the optimal three fragmentomics features discriminated early-stage breast cancer from benign nodules, even at a low sequencing depth (3\u00d7). Notably, it demonstrated a specificity of 94.1% in asymptomatic healthy women at a 90% sensitivity for breast cancer. 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