Two things about BreastScreen NSW
1. Recent posts on the BreastScreen NSW Facebook page have criticised it for not assessing breast density, unlike BreastScreen WA and private screening clinics. Tumours can hide in dense breasts whi...
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That’s awesome, @Maryn .... I am so pleased that your experience with them was a good one, as are many people's.
I reckon 80%+ of people attending Breast Screen Scanning in Australia have had exceptional service and outcomes, which is just terrific. Sadly, it is the 20% that they are ignoring and deliberately misleading, that may go on to have an adverse diagnoses .. and may even pay with their life.
But when they knowingly withhold vital diagnosis information from their client, putting their lives at risk, the gloves come off!
It is no skin off their nose to advise women of their Breast Density, maybe even giving them a piece of paper with correct options for them to consider - if the patient doesn't follow thru on it, so be it ...BUT ..... it is both morally and ethically wrong NOT to advise them that they have an adverse risk that they are totally unaware of!
The really sad thing is that most of the women with dense breast tissue (if you look at the films, it shows white around the whole front area of breast including the nipple area) - and that is where Invasive Lobular Cancer is usually found. Invasive (ie aggressive) Lobular Cancer does not present as a 'lump' as such as Ductal and other BCs do - it can also present as 'strands' (not unlike that TV Advert showing the cancer with legs infiltrating everywhere .....) It is always one of the more difficult to diagnose both manually and by mammogram.
Personally - I will never be trusting a rural bus Breast Screening again ....
I reckon 80%+ of people attending Breast Screen Scanning in Australia have had exceptional service and outcomes, which is just terrific. Sadly, it is the 20% that they are ignoring and deliberately misleading, that may go on to have an adverse diagnoses .. and may even pay with their life.
But when they knowingly withhold vital diagnosis information from their client, putting their lives at risk, the gloves come off!
It is no skin off their nose to advise women of their Breast Density, maybe even giving them a piece of paper with correct options for them to consider - if the patient doesn't follow thru on it, so be it ...BUT ..... it is both morally and ethically wrong NOT to advise them that they have an adverse risk that they are totally unaware of!
The really sad thing is that most of the women with dense breast tissue (if you look at the films, it shows white around the whole front area of breast including the nipple area) - and that is where Invasive Lobular Cancer is usually found. Invasive (ie aggressive) Lobular Cancer does not present as a 'lump' as such as Ductal and other BCs do - it can also present as 'strands' (not unlike that TV Advert showing the cancer with legs infiltrating everywhere .....) It is always one of the more difficult to diagnose both manually and by mammogram.
Personally - I will never be trusting a rural bus Breast Screening again ....