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Over 350,000 women didn't have mammograms 2021-22 due to pain & discomfort .... NEW technology!
This was in the Newspaper yesterday ...... A HUGE number of women are opting out of mammograms due to pain (even tho not mentioned in the article - it is a very real problem) & discomfort of the curre...
I was diagnosed at 65 (as are many others) & mine were still very dense at that point in time, so that knocks that theory on the head for me, I reckon! ;)
I'd never had kids, so not breast fed (and don't know if that makes a difference at all, as I didn't have all those 'hormone surges' associated with pregnancy etc ....)
Being on AIs long term apparently will make them a lot less dense (as my US lady explained), as she had my pic up on her computer & it looked a lot less dense than I'd imagined it to be!
I wonder if going OFF the AIs will 'keep them' less dense or if they will resume the former density? Only time will tell, I guess.
I'd been told from my late 20s (with my first lump scare) that I had 'lumpy breasts' - I now believe that that term also means 'dense breast tissue'.
I'd never had kids, so not breast fed (and don't know if that makes a difference at all, as I didn't have all those 'hormone surges' associated with pregnancy etc ....)
Being on AIs long term apparently will make them a lot less dense (as my US lady explained), as she had my pic up on her computer & it looked a lot less dense than I'd imagined it to be!
I wonder if going OFF the AIs will 'keep them' less dense or if they will resume the former density? Only time will tell, I guess.
I'd been told from my late 20s (with my first lump scare) that I had 'lumpy breasts' - I now believe that that term also means 'dense breast tissue'.