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wingman
7 years agoMember
What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
kmakm
7 years agoMember
@wingman I heartily endorse @arpie's post above. I had no idea breast density was a 'thing' until I found out about it here on the forum. It seriously impacted on my treatment decisions yet no doctor specifically raised it with me. I am a grown up with a brain. I find the current attitude (everywhere except in WA where they have found it doesn't increase anxiety, rather it increases the attendance to the regular screening programme) patronising in the extreme.