That really DOES suck! @Kattykit .... I guess we have always assumed, that the earlier it is found, hopefully the better the result - but sadly, we also now know that even the earliest detection doesn’t preclude us from developing Stage 4. :(
They keep making ‘excuses’ for having dense breast tissue - that they are more dense when you are young and it will decrease in density as you get older, that breast feeding can cause it - and you can inherit it ... bullshit - they haven’t got a clue, they than they KNOW it can cause a delay in detection and knowingly refuse to do anything about it. I was 65 when my tumours were found - how old do you have to be before they start becoming less dense? .... I had my first ‘cyst scare’ in my 20s and was told then that I had lumpy breasts (euphemism for dense breasts.) So I’ve ALWAYS had dense breast tissue - but until joining this site, I had no idea of the increased danger it represented re BC and that it delays the finding of the tumours .... and that made me SO ANGRY!
If they suddenly found something that helped identify testicular and Prostate cancer a lot earlier ... I bet they’d be broadcasting it from the hilltops!
The Yanks are advising women of their breast density .... so should we!
https://www.allinahealth.org/healthysetgo/heal/should-you-worry-about-that-breast-density-letter
