Are you ready to be your own best breast advocate?
Listen in and learn…
- What dense breasts are, how common they are, what you need to know and what the implications of having dense breasts can be.
- Why having dense breasts can make it harder to spot cancer on a mammogram
- The advocacy work Dense Breasts Canada is doing to get provinces to inform women of their breast density status
- Province-to-province disparities for minimum recommended age to begin breast cancer screening.
- What supplemental screening is and the differences between an ultrasound and an MRI.
- Province-to-province disparities for supplemental screening and why we need to advocate to make supplemental screening mandatory for all women with dense breasts.
- How to find out your breast density if your province isn’t automatically reporting that information, and where to find this information if you don’t have a family doctor.
- How this important information impacts women of colour
- Jennie’s wish for breast health in Canada.
Links from this week’s episode:
Dense Breasts Canada Advocacy Tookit
Dense Breasts Canada on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/densebreastscanada/
BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:
Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer
©Menopause Chicks
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