Alrighty ladies another serious topic about to be discussed. When I started this blog I wanted to share all my adventures with my kiddos and husband, keeping it light and fun. Unfortunately though, life is not always light and fun, and sometimes there are things worth sharing with each other....I truly believe knowledge is power.
A friend of mine, another mom that has a child in Jaxson's class was recently diagnosed with stage 3 Breast Cancer. She keeps us all up to date on her progress through CaringBrige, it's a great site. Anyway, she recently shared this video about breast density, and I definitely think it's worth sharing with all the women I care about. It's a little long, but the two things that you need to take away are 1) Know your breast density rating 2) Insist on further testing based on that rating. If my friend had known even what breast density was and that mammograms cannot detect tumors in dense breasts, she could have possibly caught her cancer at stage 1 or stage 2.
I had never even heard of breast density before this, and believe me it has nothing to do with size, I would know. When I talked to my doctor at my last appointment, he told me not to worry and that all women my age have dense breasts...so what does that mean? I will be sure to push the issue at my next exam. I don't know about you all, but I know more and more women getting breast cancer younger and younger these days, and at this point I don't think family history or age has anything to do with it. Please take some time in the evening and watch this and share it with other women...."it may save their life!"- Denise LeBrun (my friend with Cancer.)
http://www.ted.com/talks/deborah_rhodes.html
Thanks for the info Lyndsey! Breast cancer scares the crap out of me and it seems like I keep hearing more and more stories of ladies our age being diagnosed. I have a family history and am very diligent with self exams but really had no idea about the density part of it.
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