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arpie
Member
2 years ago

BreastScreen NSW and Qld may be advising of your Breast Density in 2025 - cancer or not!

This article was in the Sun Herald yesterday ..... yet another woman who was given the all clear from BreastScreen NSW (same as me) only to have Breast Cancer diagnosed just months later.

USA & UK are now advising their clients of their breast density & explaining the reason why a mammogram alone is not sufficient for women with dense breast tissue.

BreastScreen WA and SA are also advising their clients too ..... WHY NOT ALL THE OTHERS?

So it will be another year before this study is concluded, then they will no doubt argue long & hard on the 'yay' or 'nay' factors ......  whilst other women are being NOT diagnosed correctly, when they should have been.

This is the article, below - you may need to expand it to read a couple of columns at a time, to make it easier to read ...

Make sure you daughters/sisters etc are all aware that those living in NSW, Qld, Vic, Tas and NT - are NOT receiving the same 'duty of care' that BreastScreen WA and BreastScreen SA are giving THEIR clients. :( 

Mods - @Mez_BCNA - can Dense Breast Tissue please be added to the 'Popular Tag List' .... the only one I can see there is 'breast density' ... if you search by 'dense' or 'dense breast tissue' - nothing comes up


 
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  • Fufan's avatar
    Fufan
    Member
    2 years ago
    Years ago I was told at a routine mammogram that I had dense breasts.  I had no idea that was of any significance!  We all need to be aware of the limitations of Breastscreen.
  • arpie's avatar
    arpie
    Member
    2 years ago
    Absolutely, I agree with you @Julez1958 , it is disgraceful that all other states do NOT advise clients of their breast density.  My own Lobular was missed as well, just 4 months before my wonderful GP at the time found it by accident (when she did a pap smear, she said she'd check my boobs as well.)  The next Mammogram & Ultrasound was 'inconclusive' but a biopsy was suggested.  Then the guy on the Ultrasound machine said "this doesn't look like breast cancer' ....... but the Dr doing the Biopsy did it anyway - and there were 2 tumours, both Lobular.

    I agree - BCNA needs to put this on high priority for advocacy - as women are being diagnosed at a later stage, which can be devastating - some being diagnosed with Mets, straight up. 
  • Julez1958's avatar
    Julez1958
    Member
    2 years ago
    Thanks @arpie
    I was advised I had dense breasts early on but no one ever told me that might make it easier to miss sonething  on my mammograms which is exactly what happened to me - I found a lump and turned out to be a 5.5cm lobular cancer only 11 months after I got the all clear on a breast screen mammogram.
    It is outrageous that NSW is not following the lead of the other states advising re this.
    @Mez_BCNA definately a priority for advocacy .