The 54-year-old TV presenter, who shared her breast cancer diagnosis in 2021, went to multiple consultations, but her tumour was missed twice due to having “dense breasts.” Speaking to Davina McCall about her cancer journey on the “Begin Again” podcast, Bradbury said: “One doctor told me if you have dense breasts and you have a mammogram, tumours are invisible because its like looking for a snowball in a snowstorm.
Julia Bradbury says common condition made her breast cancer 'invisible' to doctors Julia Bradbury said that a common condition affecting almost half of all women over 40 made her breast cancer like “trying to see a snowball in a snowstorm”.
Breasts are made up of fatty tissue, made up of fat cells, and dense tissue, made up of milk glands, ducts and supportive tissue.
You can only identify if you have dense breasts through a mammogram - where it becomes clear if you have dense breasts.
“It’s white on white - your whole breast looks whiter because of the tissue and so tumours show up white as well on mammograms.” She also had an ultrasound but nothing was picked up and the tumour was missed.
