University says women should be advised of their Breast Density!!
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That really DOES suck! @Kattykit .... I guess we have always assumed, that the earlier it is found, hopefully the better the result - but sadly, we also now know that even the earliest detection doesn’t preclude us from developing Stage 4.
They keep making ‘excuses’ for having dense breast tissue - that they are more dense when you are young and it will decrease in density as you get older, that breast feeding can cause it - and you can inherit it ... bullshit - they haven’t got a clue, they than they KNOW it can cause a delay in detection and knowingly refuse to do anything about it. I was 65 when my tumours were found - how old do you have to be before they start becoming less dense? .... I had my first ‘cyst scare’ in my 20s and was told then that I had lumpy breasts (euphemism for dense breasts.) So I’ve ALWAYS had dense breast tissue - but until joining this site, I had no idea of the increased danger it represented re BC and that it delays the finding of the tumours .... and that made me SO ANGRY!
If they suddenly found something that helped identify testicular and Prostate cancer a lot earlier ... I bet they’d be broadcasting it from the hilltops!
The Yanks are advising women of their breast density .... so should we!
https://www.allinahealth.org/healthysetgo/heal/should-you-worry-about-that-breast-density-letter
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@arpie ✅✅✅. I knew my breasts were lumpy, but had no idea lumpy meant dense. They weren’t that full or perky, so even if I had known about density, I wouldn’t have thought that mind are. That’s how ignorant I was, and not by choice. When I told my GP in 2018 that I wanted another ultrasound (had had one in 2016), she said I didn’t need one, even though I told her my breasts were lumpy and I had no idea what was what, even if I did do self checks. She said if you feel anything suspicious, monitor it. I thought stuff it, it’s too confusing, and left praying that I wouldn’t get it or that I’d find it early if I did. Second thing happened. I was just lucky, not educated. We need to be more educated!0
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@arpie @AllyJay @Kattykit @Cath62 Scroll to the 15 April post on the BreastScreen NSW Facebook page to see a splendid example of its disabling the display of contra-arguments. https://www.facebook.com/BreastScreenNSW/
At last check there were 60 comments, with a majority criticising BreastScreen NSW's failure to promote the availability of screening mammograms for women starting at age 40. There were a few comments critical of its failure to assess breast density and to screen dense breasts properly (unlike private clinics and BreastScreen WA).
BreastScreen NSW refuses to promote the fact that mammograms are freely available to the female residents and taxpayers of NSW from age 40. For the 15 April thread, BreastScreen NSW disabled viewing of 'All comments' and restricted viewing to 'Most relevant'. BreastScreen NSW restricts viewing in this manner carte blanche in order to extinguish a thread.
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@NoShrinkingViolet 😲😲😲😡😡😡1
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Hello everyone,
Please see information on BCNA's website regarding breast density.
https://www.bcna.org.au/breast-health-awareness/mammographic-density-and-screening/BCNA are calling on the following areas of reform for women with dense breasts:
- Extension of the WA BreastScreen program that advises all women with dense breasts that their screening mammogram is less sensitive to cancers and they should therefore be vigilant in looking for breast changes and speak to their GP if they would like further information on additional screening options such as breast ultrasound, tomosynthesis or breast MRI.
- Improved Medicare rebates for women with dense breasts who need additional screening options such as breast MRI in order to reduce out-of-pocket costs associated with breast cancer surveillance.
- Greater funding investment into automated programs that can better determine a woman’s levels of breast density to better assist her to make informed decisions based upon her individual risk.
- Development of clinical practice guidelines for the management of breast density so that women can be better informed of what their risk of breast cancer is and how they can best screen for breast cancer.
- Greater research into links between breast density and breast cancer risk.
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@NoShrinkingViolet...they have deleted more than one comment I've made before regarding medicare paying from age 40 without referral from doctor. Once I had a token response along the lines of ....younger women...dense breasts...false positives and stress...blah blah blah. When I responded that I was sure most women would rather have a scare and not have cancer, than forgo the potential scare until too late. At that point, all was erased.1
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@AllyJay Yep,
BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false
positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram
program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false
negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and
BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to
the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate
one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy
(BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate
of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image.
https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a
link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen
Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years
BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15
mm) has been declining.0 -
According to Breast Cancer Research (Australia) around 21% of new cancer diagnosis are in women younger than 50. Unless you fall into their age range bracket...tough titty. They receive state and government funding...that is..we, the taxpayers, pay their salaries, but those younger and older are left out to dry. They will still be paid by medicare for extended (both younger and older) patients for screening, yet they only advertise their "target" age. We the taxpayers also pay for the advertising....but I digress. In essence, that is misleading information. I was in the bank one day, and the lovely lady who always helps me, said to me that she was turning 55 the next year, and she would be sure to book her first mammogram. When I told her she could get one then and not wait another year, for free, no doctor referral needed, she didn't believe me at first. She said to me that all the media only mentioned 55 and so she had been waiting for that magical age to tick over. I'm sure this is the general impression....I'm not old enough to get breast cancer...I only have to be on my guard after 55. So very wrong on so many levels, and as you mention, when you try to highlight this in one of their facebook advertising posts, you're muzzled. If you don't join in with the ra ra ... yippee....breastscreen saved my life mantra, they'll just click the button and make you go away.1
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@AllyJay Yep, BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to the requirements of each woman but takes a woefully inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image. https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15 mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep, BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image. https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15 mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep, BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image. https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15 mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep, BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image. https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15 mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep, BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy (BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image. https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15 mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep,
BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false
positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram
program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false
negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and
BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to
the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate
one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy
(BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate
of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image.
https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a
link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen
Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years
BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15
mm) has been declining.0 -
@AllyJay Yep,
BreastScreen NSW employs the mantra of 'younger women, dense breasts, false
positives and the stress caused' ad nauseum as its rationale for not promoting its mammogram
program to women starting at age 40.
Mention older women, dense breasts, false
negatives (i.e. 'all clear letters' despite harbouring breast cancer) and
BreastScreen NSW's silence is deafening. It fails to tailor screening to
the requirements of each woman but employs a woefully inadequate
one-size-fits-all approach.
The BreastScreen Reader Assessment Strategy
(BREAST) at the University of Sydney notes a mammogram detection failure rate
of about 30% with many missed cancers being visible on the image.
https://breast-australia.sydney.edu.au/
Every year the Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW) releases the BreastScreen Australia Monitoring Report - here's a
link to the 2020 report. BreastScreen
Australia monitoring report 2020 (aihw.gov.au) P. 32 cites that over the past twenty years
BreastScreen Australia's rate of detecting cancers at the 'small' stage (≤15
mm) has been declining.0
