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Christina_BCNA
11 months agoCommunity Manager
📣 BreastScreen progress has flatlined. BCNA’s response to AIHW data.
Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is calling on the Federal Government to immediately action recommended reforms to the national BreastScreen program.
The newly released BreastScreen Austral...
Em271
10 months agoMember
I too recently had a 'normal' screening result given from a mammogram at Breast Screen NSW, and the recommendation was to have another mammogram in 2 years time.
Thankfully they noted my 'extremely dense breast tissue' which after I researched what that meant I decided to ask my GP for an ultrasound to be sure - and that picked up my IDC, I've since had a double mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy and am so relieved my cancer was still considered early stage - although had I waited the 2 years to my next screening it would have been a very different scenario!