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Just a quick reminder to book in for your free mammogram.
I was at a school reunion over the weekend and one of my classmates couldn't come because she had just had a double mastectomy, and was starting on chemo.
She hadn't had a mammogram when she turned 40, but a couple of weeks ago discovered a lump, they got her in for a biopsy and discovered cancer. She is 41. We will never know if she had had her first mammogram would the cancer been picked up earlier.
I had one this afternoon.
Yep, I had one soon after I turned 40... but now I'm 42. How often should we have them now? 2 years? Mine was all clear.
I had one last year when I was 39, was getting little lumps all the time cos of IVF hormones, all clear and it was free too! ( I work for the health care group).
Thats awful about your classmate, someone I went to school with just had a mastectomy too. Scary isn't it?
thanks for the reminder x
25% of breast cancer occurs in women aged 50 and under!!! Sadly many of those women suffer delays in diagnosis, like I did.
Its so important to get checked! I'm still a couple of years off, but I'll be getting checked once I hit 30. My mum got breast cancer a couple of years ago in her mid 40's and also developed a very rare syndrome (paraneoplastic syndrome) as a result. We're not sure she'll ever recover and may be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. As if getting cancer and having chemo and a mastectomy wasn't enough.
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Every 2 years, same as pap smears.
If you have a family history you can go earlier.:
Sorry to hear about your mum :( :hug:
Thanks. We were told that they recommend me and my sisters start getting checked mid 30s since Mum was in her mid 40s but I'm going to do it a bit earlier. Had Mum gotten the type of cancer that is genetic, I would have been tested for that gene and then would have seriously considered a double mastectomy just to eliminate the risk.
Now I'm wondering, can you have a mammogram done while breastfeeding?
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I was meant to get a mammogram ages ago due to my sister's cancer. Sucks that you have to pay when there is a family history. Almost at the big 40, will be booking then.
Yeh my best friend got diagnosed at 48, she wasn't aware that it was free after 40, so was waiting to turn 50, thankfully her partner felt a lump, she had double mastectomy and full-on treatment, she is in remission now.:
I was under the impression you didn't have to pay if there was a family history.:
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Can you go before you are 40?
Of course, but AFAIK you will have to pay.:
That is what I thought too.:
Young women with close family history can have a Medicare subsidized MRI - which ironically is not paid for young women who actually have been diagnosed (!)
Really! My GP must not know that. Will call breastscreen and talk to them. Yes my 40th is only 3 odd months away, but I have delayed long enough.
Astrid - breastscreen are brilliant, I got in at the one at DJs. The nurse who did my squish was fantastic.