@arpie Fingers crossed your link posts to BreastScreen NSW's Facebook page. They often delete posts that contradict their propaganda and the result is a Facebook page that is not much more than a mutual admiration society.
As you know, BreastScreen NSW is not equipped to detect ILC. Their 2D mammograms (in their facilities and on the buses) are not known for detecting ILC; combine that with poor imagery due to dense breast tissue and the result is, as you experienced, an all-clear (false negative) letter despite having breast cancer. You were saved by your switched-on GP, whose investigations led to a diagnosis just months after your all-clear from BreastScreen NSW.
The implications for BreastScreen's failure to obtain better images from 3D mammograms and ultrasounds for women with dense breast tissue, and thereby earlier detection, is later stage diagnoses, more aggressive treatments, and potentially death.
I agree with @Afraser. It is my right to be informed about my body. It is indefensible that BreastScreen (except WA) refuses to assess and report breast density to women and their GP. The radiographer knows when she's taking your images, the radiologist knows when they're reading your images but they cannot say anything. BreastScreen Australia has bought their silence. I'll call it for what it is - dereliction of duty.
