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🌼Why Knowing Your Breast Density Matters
Understanding your breast density is an empowering part of taking charge of your breast health. Breast density refers to the mix of fatty, glandular and connective tissue seen on a mammogram, and som...
Make sure your friends/daughters/grand daughters all know their breast density - BreastScreenNSW (and other states) are now REQUIRED to advise clients of their breast density, so they are aware that it may be 'hiding' their cancer (as happened to me.)
After I gave them a 2nd chance to 'spot it' (following my surgery) they gleefully told me that there WAS NO cancer in the same image they'd missed it on, 6 months earlier ....
I then had ROBUST conversations with BSNSW, even receiving a call from the Head Honcho & discussing it 'in person' ... that it was ESSENTIAL that women KNOW if they have Dense Breast Tissue & of the risks that Dense Breast Tissue entails!
Being diagnosed LATER (thru missing the BC) may lead to a FAR more serious diagnosis, even Stage 4, straight up.
They say only younger women have dense breasts. That is RUBBISH, yet they still spew out the same misinformation.
I was 65 (hardly young!) when I was diagnosed after 2 mammograms and an ultrasound had missed it (and they still weren't certain it was BC - but at least had suggested a biopsy, which confirmed it.)
Following 7 years of Hormone Suppression meds - you can read a newspaper thru my scans now, as there is NO density showing at all!
I often wonder just HOW many years had they had missed it? I'd been attending the Rural Buses for 20 years - but they only have 2D Mammogram machines, not 3D which are MUCH better at detecting BC even in dense breast tissue - but you REALLY need an Ultrasound every time as well, if not further more advanced imaging.
I will NEVER attend a rural BreastScreen bus again!