I have finally had time to read this and actually take it in @romla. Thank you so much for going and taking the time to fill us all in.
Surely, there can be no issue with informing the patient of their own body. I know that I had dense breasts when I was younger from the time I had a diagnostic mammogram in my 30s for what turned out to be a cyst (interestingly, in a similar area to the cancer). I was never told that this could be an issue with any bearing on anything even though my sister had Stage 4 at that time. To be honest, I don't know how dense my breasts still are but that is a question for the surgeon when I see him in a couple of weeks - whether he mentioned it at an earlier appointment, I have no idea as my head was spinning back then.
Due to familial risk, my 2 daughters will be advised to be screened from 30 years old so I am very concerned that this stance be changed. It is highly likely that 1 if not both of them will inherit dense breasts from me. How dense? Who knows? But surely the exact grade isn't what is important - it's merely the fact that early cancers could be obscured. It takes enough courage, particularly when BC is in the family, to go along to a breastscreen without going away with a false sense of security.
