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BCNA go in to bat for us getting subsidised or free MRIs ... Sunday Paper
Talk about sexism!! Men get it cheap - but not women! TOTALLY UNFAIR! WELL DONE to BCNA for going in to bat on our behalf - especially women with dense breasts who may need the more expensive op...
Again, it's just like how women's pain is trivialised and under-medicated compared with men's. It is outrageous. Sexist, bordering on mysoginistic.
Despite the fact that my mother had breast cancer at 51, my sister had it at 44 which eventually killed her at 47, and then my own diagnosis at 51, I wasn't eligble for a subsidised MRI. Which would have been 'handy' as my breast tissue was quite dense and had two lots of high grade DCIS that could not be seen by 2D & 3D mammograms or ultrasounds. My BC experience would have been so different, and so much easier if I'd been able to have an MRI.
This shit makes me furious.
Despite the fact that my mother had breast cancer at 51, my sister had it at 44 which eventually killed her at 47, and then my own diagnosis at 51, I wasn't eligble for a subsidised MRI. Which would have been 'handy' as my breast tissue was quite dense and had two lots of high grade DCIS that could not be seen by 2D & 3D mammograms or ultrasounds. My BC experience would have been so different, and so much easier if I'd been able to have an MRI.
This shit makes me furious.