Quote from the book
Radical
: The Science, Culture and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert"...Having
dense breast tissue can hide a tumor on a mammogram and also increases the odds
a woman will develop breast cancer. And yet, for decades, women with dense breast_
nearly half of all adult women and even larger share of young women_ were not
told that the value of their annual screening mammograms was diminished by this
fact. Women (in America) might still be in the dark if not for a Connecticut
woman named Nancy Cappello. Diagnosed in 2004 with advanced breast cancer, just
six weeks after a supposedly clear mammogram, Cappello learned she had dense
breast tissue, which likely obscured her tumor on the screening test. After undergoing
treatment, Cappello founded o nonprofit advocacy organization called Are You
Dense? and started lobbying states and the federal USA government to pass
laws requiring that mammogram results include information about breast density….At
least thirty-five states now (2019) require women to be informed about their
breast density after they undergo screening mammograms…. The information empowers
women to talk to their doctors about whether further screening using other
methods might be warranted. Sometimes this means MRI. More frequently, though,
women at high risk of developing breast cancer are scanned with ultrasound"
It is time Australian women have the same right.
Could BCNA lobby for this ?