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...
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Breast density as it applies to mammograms is definitely a problem. Admittedly my cancer being lobular and high on my chest made it unlikely that a mammogram could have detected it (they didn't) but I did get a call back years before my diagnosis because the radiologist was not happy with the quality of the screen. The nurse at the time told me my breasts had, and I quote, 'more lumpy bits than a kapok mattress.' You can't say shit like that anymore but I'm glad she did. It made me more aware of the limitations of the screens. Without that knowledge and the general mistrust it instilled, I'd be just a plaque on a stone now.
Mind you, those dense breasts were a source of wonder for many years until their elastic broke and they started to resemble two sandwich bags half full of damp sand...