My gosh, so happy for this group. I too have dense breasts. At my first mammogram, at the age 40, I was told, \u201cyou have dense breasts.\u201d Not really getting any more information on that, I went for regular annual mammograms. Sixteen years later, which was a year ago, I had some unusual symptoms: inverted nipple, reddish colour discharge and random prickly feelings. I went to my doctor. He sent me for a mammogram, which came back clear.<\/p>\n
These symptoms did not go away. I researched dense breasts and not really finding any more information, back to my doctor I went. My doctor then sent me to the breast health centre in Saskatoon. The surgeon there sent me for an MRI. The report came back, highly suspicious malignant cells. I then went for an MRI guided biopsy. The result, ductile carcinoma insitu.<\/p>\n
Thankful that I persevered and didn\u2019t let the mammogram be my only tool. Thankful it was early stage. I had a bilateral mastectomy, with immediate breast reconstruction, using the diep flap procedure, which used my belly tissue. The 8-hour surgery sucked, but the short-term pain for the long term gain. I\u2019m grateful for that too. Grateful for listening to my body and thinking about dense breasts and cancer. Mammograms did not aid in my diagnosis, but I feel they are a great tool for some women. I am one of the fortunate ones, thankful for doctors who listened to me and then suggested the surgery. Surgery was on Feb. 4, 2020. They removed 5 nodes from one breast and one node from the other and all were clear. I guess you can call me belly boobs now!
\nNancy Hamilton- proud prairie girl from Saskatchewan
\n57 years, wife, Mom and grandma.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mon Dieu, je suis si heureuse pour ce groupe. Moi aussi, j'ai les seins denses. Lors de ma premi\u00e8re mammographie, \u00e0 l'\u00e2ge de 40 ans, on m'a dit \"vous avez les seins denses\". N'ayant pas vraiment obtenu plus d'informations \u00e0 ce sujet, j'ai effectu\u00e9 des mammographies annuelles r\u00e9guli\u00e8res. Seize ans plus tard, c'est-\u00e0-dire il y a un an, j'ai eu des sympt\u00f4mes inhabituels : des...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n