I understand that early detection is important. I am concerned that the intense pressure applied to the breast during a mammogram might actually cause harm to the breast tissue. During a routine mammogram a spot was discovered that had not been there a year ago. I was sent to get another mammogram and then an ultrasound. The doctor told me that I have a very small spot that might be scar tissue sometimes caused by trauma. The problem is that cancer can also appear as scar tissue. The only way to know for sure is to take a biopsy. The only trauma I have experienced to my breast is the trauma from having my breast squeezed in a vice-like device during a mammogram! If that is not trauma then I don’t know what is! I fear that at some time in the future it will be discovered that this intense pressure is causing harm. Hopefully, a better way of detecting breast cancer will be found. I will be having a biopsy soon. I am grateful that if I do have breast cancer it is being detected early and can be removed. Still I have concerns about trauma from the very procedure used to detect breast cancer. Am I the only person with these concerns? Does anyone get what I am saying? UPDATE: It was cancer. An MRI revealed cancer in the other breast. I had a bilateral mastectomy in October and I am doing well! No Chemo and no radiation! I may never know the why. Thankful it was caught early!
Yes. It is trauma. Especially when they take multiple images. Dense breast tissue reads like breast cancer so mammograms aren’t beneficial for women with dense breasts
My grandmother had a breast cancer. She fell of the stairs and hit her breast against a steel doorknob (German built building) Ever since that time she always felt pain and then eventually it turned into cancer. I think the pressure and squeezing the breast can't be good
@@mademsoisellerhapsody there are 4 types of densities for breasts and a very, very extreme 4 would then be sent to a specialty doctor after a breast radiologist (not just a radiologist) has determined your specific density. I think it is important for women to really know their bodies. In and out, their doctors AND THE SPECIFIC RADIOLOGIST READING THEIR IMAGES....YOU ALL HAVE CHOICES...but to say mammograms aren't beneficial for dense breasts is not a completely true statement to someone who doesn't really understand mammography or breasts. Sadly women don't know about breast unless two things: they want implants or they're ill. Where I work we really REALLY try to inform. : )
If ultrasounds give good results for dense breast tissue then why isn't it used as the standard breast imaging. Ultra sounds are radiation free & a lot less painful than those awful mammograms.
Exactly...Since when "they" care so much about our health than we receive a free mammogram every 2 years. And then recalls and then ultrasound- thanks God - I had cysts.
Thermography is the best diagnostic tool, safe, radiation free and picks up hot spots at such an early time that it can be reversed with supplements and dietary changes and surprise, surprise it is not available on the NHS, nothing safe and effective is. I will go nowhere near our NHS.
Read as many books as you can on the topic. Mammograms are NOT a preventative tool. They are a type of (which can often be wrong!) diagnostic machine - that's it. Stress, hormones and diet play enormous roles in cancer which are largely overlooked when someone is diagnosed.
A lot of women died of breast cancer back in the day also. People are living a lot longer now thanks to advances in medicine. If you ever walk through a graveyard you'd be surprised at the shot lifespans on many of the tombstones. Medicine isn't perfect but there have definitely been life saving advances that have benefited almost everyone.
@@glw5166 do you have statistics on that? Current stats include DCIS and also includes the ridiculous "5 year survival". I know women who did the whole 9 medical yards and those that did next to nothing. Guess which group fared better and didn't die from the dis-ease?
I think evey woman regardless of family history should have the Wright to decide weather or not to have a mastectomy on the nhs . It looks really stressful and honestly the thought of having one terrifies me . I feel this day in age we as women deserve that option 😌
I'm 34 and both my physician and the Dr I'm seeing Thursday for my mammogram made me feel bad for asking for one "so young" I'm sorry the last time I checked, your oath said "do no harm" and you swore upon it legally. So don't deny me. Get it done. Canada SUCKS
Study. Radiation is cumulative. I was recommeded 2x a year since my 20's. Didn't do. Your body. Your choice. We all have cancer bombarding us. Breast tissue is delicately connected to hormones. There is SO SO MUCH not known.
I had an unnecessay operation with an unethical dr n a biopsy also long story. I did have b c 16 yrs ago bt fine since n it was agressive bt caught early
I understand that early detection is important. I am concerned that the intense pressure applied to the breast during a mammogram might actually cause harm to the breast tissue. During a routine mammogram a spot was discovered that had not been there a year ago. I was sent to get another mammogram and then an ultrasound. The doctor told me that I have a very small spot that might be scar tissue sometimes caused by trauma. The problem is that cancer can also appear as scar tissue. The only way to know for sure is to take a biopsy. The only trauma I have experienced to my breast is the trauma from having my breast squeezed in a vice-like device during a mammogram! If that is not trauma then I don’t know what is! I fear that at some time in the future it will be discovered that this intense pressure is causing harm. Hopefully, a better way of detecting breast cancer will be found. I will be having a biopsy soon. I am grateful that if I do have breast cancer it is being detected early and can be removed. Still I have concerns about trauma from the very procedure used to detect breast cancer. Am I the only person with these concerns? Does anyone get what I am saying?
UPDATE: It was cancer. An MRI revealed cancer in the other breast. I had a bilateral mastectomy in October and I am doing well! No Chemo and no radiation! I may never know the why. Thankful it was caught early!
Yes. It is trauma. Especially when they take multiple images. Dense breast tissue reads like breast cancer so mammograms aren’t beneficial for women with dense breasts
I agree !!!!
My grandmother had a breast cancer. She fell of the stairs and hit her breast against a steel doorknob (German built building) Ever since that time she always felt pain and then eventually it turned into cancer. I think the pressure and squeezing the breast can't be good
@@mademsoisellerhapsody there are 4 types of densities for breasts and a very, very extreme 4 would then be sent to a specialty doctor after a breast radiologist (not just a radiologist) has determined your specific density. I think it is important for women to really know their bodies. In and out, their doctors AND THE SPECIFIC RADIOLOGIST READING THEIR IMAGES....YOU ALL HAVE CHOICES...but to say mammograms aren't beneficial for dense breasts is not a completely true statement to someone who doesn't really understand mammography or breasts. Sadly women don't know about breast unless two things: they want implants or they're ill. Where I work we really REALLY try to inform. : )
@@mademsoisellerhapsodythank you for this
If mammograms are so safe, how come the person giving the test wears a led vest and stands behind a wall ????
Because the patient is exposed once. The tech is exposed all day and every working day
Radiation exposure is cumulative and they never talk about that, instead they always say it's so little radiation.
If ultrasounds give good results for dense breast tissue then why isn't it used as the standard breast imaging. Ultra sounds are radiation free & a lot less painful than those awful mammograms.
Exactly...Since when "they" care so much about our health than we receive a free mammogram every 2 years. And then recalls and then ultrasound- thanks God - I had cysts.
Thermography is the best diagnostic tool, safe, radiation free and picks up hot spots at such an early time that it can be reversed with supplements and dietary changes and surprise, surprise it is not available on the NHS, nothing safe and effective is. I will go nowhere near our NHS.
@@monikam9069 avoid mammograms they probably caused your cysts, pay for thermography if worried.
Read as many books as you can on the topic.
Mammograms are NOT a preventative tool. They are a type of (which can often be wrong!) diagnostic machine - that's it.
Stress, hormones and diet play enormous roles in cancer which are largely overlooked when someone is diagnosed.
Would a ultra sound be a better detector?or Thermography?
Cancer was missed four times in mammograms. I finally found the lump.
It's just another way to scare woman and drum up business for people who work in the hospital
That's what I say.
At risk of not supporting the profit motives of the industrial medical complex.
Talk to David Brownstein that says the majority of the reason why women get breast cancer is due to lack of iodine.
Dense breast tissue and breast cancer look the same in mammogram images tho
Never had one never will.. extremely dangerous
I agree with you. So much conflicting information.
Back in the days they never even had such a thing called mammograms and they were doing fine!....makes you wonder🤔
A lot of women died of breast cancer back in the day also. People are living a lot longer now thanks to advances in medicine. If you ever walk through a graveyard you'd be surprised at the shot lifespans on many of the tombstones. Medicine isn't perfect but there have definitely been life saving advances that have benefited almost everyone.
@@glw5166 do you have statistics on that? Current stats include DCIS and also includes the ridiculous "5 year survival". I know women who did the whole 9 medical yards and those that did next to nothing. Guess which group fared better and didn't die from the dis-ease?
@@Sharone123 I’m talking about women like my great grandmother who died in the 1920s. Obviously this was before any technological advances.
@@glw5166 sadly if you look at the actual numbers it's on the rise.
@@Sharone123 Exactly!
I don't listen to anybody talking through a mask for no reason.
Agree
what a stupid statement you've made.
If only 1 in 6 breast cancers are found in women over 40, in what age group are the other 5 cancers found? 🤔
After finding lump & couple other concerning symptoms, I go tomorrow morning to get 1st mammogram,I'm 39. I'm so nervous!😩
Hey how did it go? I was ordered one :( I hope you are healthy!
Please let us know what the mammogram showed. Prayers!
How was it
Always something 🤦🏾♀️
Until millions are dead they’ll keep changing the “scientific consensus”
@@saucysuishi341 These ppl are Terrible smh
Get a Thermogram.
@@Smileeen
Not sure, maybe things have changed. I'd pay in cash if I had to, in avoiding the radiation.
Hi, are Thermography safer and more efficient and reliable?
I think evey woman regardless of family history should have the Wright to decide weather or not to have a mastectomy on the nhs . It looks really stressful and honestly the thought of having one terrifies me . I feel this day in age we as women deserve that option 😌
So just forget 39 and younger? They need to make a better machine. Why can't air do this ?
@@ChanaElisheva every woman is different
I'm 34 and both my physician and the Dr I'm seeing Thursday for my mammogram made me feel bad for asking for one "so young"
I'm sorry the last time I checked, your oath said "do no harm" and you swore upon it legally. So don't deny me. Get it done.
Canada SUCKS
It is too young unless women on your mother's side had breast cancer.
@@monikam9069 breast cancer is on my mothers side
Study. Radiation is cumulative. I was recommeded 2x a year since my 20's. Didn't do. Your body. Your choice. We all have cancer bombarding us. Breast tissue is delicately connected to hormones. There is SO SO MUCH not known.
Mammograms are dangerous, you are encouraging them Todo you harm
I had an unnecessay operation with an unethical dr n a biopsy also long story. I did have b c 16 yrs ago bt fine since n it was agressive bt caught early
every 3 years for me. Do self BE's all the time to feel for lumps.
I thought a mammogram was a woman who knocks on your door and sings you a message.
@Keanu Gus = Jack Gustavo
Big no no