Tell us about your breast cancer story and please also tell us what you would like women WITHOUT breast cancer to know.
You can also choose to e-mail us your story at info@densebreastscanada.ca. Photos are welcome. Thank you for sharing your story and helping to inform other women.
Témoignages
Trisha
Every time I think about the destiny that was planned for me by a healthcare system I trusted, the words of an Ed Sheeran song play in my head, ?Memories of a life that?s been loved?but mum, there?s a tear every time that I blink?oh, I?m in pieces, it?s tearing me up, but I know…
Kathy
Looking back now, I credit the Algonquin Hotel in St. Andrews, New Brunswick for helping me find my breast cancer. I was attending a conference at the hotel and gearing up for a busy day when I hopped in the shower. The hotel showers do not have those puffs that I use at home to…
Cinda
I was diagnosed in early July 2017. I was 51 years old, a police officer, wife and busy mother of a 15-year-old daughter. I didn?t have time for cancer. 6 months earlier I had some calcifications detected in my left breast by mammogram. They were biopsied, and I was assured they weren?t cancer but rather…
Annie
J'ai passé ma première mammographie à l'âge de 40 ans. Je n'avais pas d'antécédents familiaux de cancer du sein, j'étais jeune et en bonne santé, et lorsque les résultats se sont révélés normaux, j'ai été soulagée et je suis passée à autre chose. Quelques mois plus tard, j'ai senti une petite grosseur dans mon sein droit. Je ne me suis pas trop inquiétée, j'avais...
In Memory: Ann
I first learned that I had dense breasts in 1999. I was just 36 years old and I found a lump in my right breast. After my first-ever mammogram, I was told it was not cancer, but that I did have dense breasts. Nothing further was said, but I do recall thinking it was kind…
Barbara
I used to walk by a local park with a picturesque section devoted to breast cancer survivors with a feeling of empathy for these women and a sense of relief that I was not part of that group. Being in excellent health with no background of cancer in my family, I assumed that I would…
Joy
Bonjour, je m'appelle Joy Veinot et je suis originaire de la magnifique côte sud de la Nouvelle-Écosse. On m'a diagnostiqué un carcinome canalaire invasif de stade 2A en juillet 2013, à l'âge de 51 ans. Je suis infirmière et je travaille avec des personnes ayant des besoins spéciaux et je travaille également dans un établissement pour personnes âgées.....
Joscelyn
Mon message aux femmes ayant un tissu mammaire dense? Assurez-vous que votre équipe de soins de santé est au courant de l’information contenue sur ce site Web. Dans mon cas, une mammographie de dépistage a révélé un cancer. Cependant, cette mammographie, ainsi que l’imagerie de suivi (tomosynthèse, clichés agrandis et échographies), n’ont pas permis de détecter une deuxième tumeur invasive.
Misha
I found a malignant, triple negative tumour in my breast in 2012, at age 49, a few weeks after receiving an all clear letter from the mammography program I?d been examined by yearly since surgery for a large adenoma in 1999. I?d been told once years before by my GP that my breasts were dense…
