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Flaneuse
7 years agoMember
@JJ70 and @arpie People slip through the nets. I had my regular Breastscreen QLD mammogram in Nov 2016 and received the "nothing to see here" letter - also a note that that would be my final screening with them, because I was approaching 75.
Nine months later, I found physical symptoms. At the Wesley BC, neither the mammogram nor the tomosynthesis showed anything. It took 1.5 hours of a three people ultrasounding me, to find it. Stage 2 Invasive Lobular (like 20% of BCs) - very diffuse and subtle, hard to detect. Ended up being a 12 cm tumour. And papillomas in the right.
I have dense breast tissue. My daughter and nieces have now all been off to have ultrasounds and will do so regularly.
Nine months later, I found physical symptoms. At the Wesley BC, neither the mammogram nor the tomosynthesis showed anything. It took 1.5 hours of a three people ultrasounding me, to find it. Stage 2 Invasive Lobular (like 20% of BCs) - very diffuse and subtle, hard to detect. Ended up being a 12 cm tumour. And papillomas in the right.
I have dense breast tissue. My daughter and nieces have now all been off to have ultrasounds and will do so regularly.