Stories
Dr. Nancy Cappello's Story
I did what the medical field and the countless number of cancer advocacy groups told me. I ate healthy, exercised daily, had yearly mammograms AND had no first-degree relative with breast cancer. Little did I know...
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A Tale of Two Cancers: I was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome Related to my Breast Cancer Treatment 14 years ago – Another Harm of Advanced Disease
It was a stunner when the ER doctor reported to my husband Joe and me that all my blood lines (red, white and platelets) were dangerously low and I would need to be admitted to the hospital for a blood transfusion.
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A normal mammogram months before, Deb was diagnosed with a 5CM stage-2 breast cancer.
Even though she had dense breast tissue, her providers never discussed adjunct screening beyond the mammogram.
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A normal mammogram 10 months earlier. An ultrasound detected a 5.2 centimeter cancer with node metastasis - Stage 3A. So much for mammogram and early detection!
The bottom line is that women need to know if they have dense breasts and that mammogram is not sufficient and insurers need to pay for additional diagnostics.
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Jean from Australia felt a lump which yielded three tumors, the largest 3 cm in size - five months previously she received a report indicating that her mammogram was clear.
She had not previously heard of dense breasts and despite having nine screening mammograms over the past eighteen years she was never told that her breasts are dense.
