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radiant · 10-14-2011, 10:29 AM

Sarah:

You were very, very fortunate to have a dr or clinician tell you at an early age about dense breasts. For the majority of us, no one ever mentioned this to us, ever. Even though for me, my mammogram readings said "Looks fine, but too dense too tell".

Sadly, I would get my annual letter that I was cleared off of this - no one ever bothered to apparently read the report or flag my dr that she should be reading this. It never occurred to me that I would need to read my own mammogram reports from the radiologist, since I'd never heard of that. I expected my dr to take care of me. that was a super, super wrong decision on my end.

Hopefully this clears it up. Had anyone, anywhere ( been checking since I was 36 due to such fybrocystic breasts) mentioned dense tissue as an issue, I would have been all over it.

- Kim

10-14-2011, 10:29 AM	#10
radiant Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 88	Re: California SB 791 Veoted by Gov. Brown Sarah: You were very, very fortunate to have a dr or clinician tell you at an early age about dense breasts. For the majority of us, no one ever mentioned this to us, ever. Even though for me, my mammogram readings said "Looks fine, but too dense too tell". Sadly, I would get my annual letter that I was cleared off of this - no one ever bothered to apparently read the report or flag my dr that she should be reading this. It never occurred to me that I would need to read my own mammogram reports from the radiologist, since I'd never heard of that. I expected my dr to take care of me. that was a super, super wrong decision on my end. Hopefully this clears it up. Had anyone, anywhere ( been checking since I was 36 due to such fybrocystic breasts) mentioned dense tissue as an issue, I would have been all over it. - Kim __________________ ------------------------------ Dx Stage 3C 2005, triple +, tons of lymph nodes as well. FEC, surgery, TCH, rads, herceptin 1 year. And, Aromasin. 2007 - recurrence to medistinal lymph node, Abraxene and Herceptin - took it down 50% 2008 - on Arimidex/Herceptin - stable lymph node. 2009 - stable on Arimidex/Herceptin 2010 - lymph node progression and liver mets. 2010 - went on Gemzar, Navelbine, Herceptin - Navelbine and Herceptin took liver mets down. lymph node slightly progressed. 2010 - did Xeloda & Tykerb - MAJOR progression in liver in only 6 weeks. Dec 2010 - present - Ixempra/Avastin/Herceptin/Fasoldex - regressing June 2012 - chemo break Sept 19, 2012 - start t-dm1. Chose this over going back on Ixempra.