The sonographer made a shock admission about mammograms that saved my life ‘You have the densest breasts I have ever seen!’.
Then one day when I was 50, I was in the shower and I felt an unusual area of thickening breast tissue, which I wanted to get checked.
She also said there were suspicious dark, ‘spiculated’ areas which looked different to the rest of the breast that needed more investigation.
I’d been having annual mammograms since I was 41 because of my family history of breast cancer.
The next few weeks were a blur of hospital visits, imaging, and biopsies – and when I finally got the diagnosis, it felt like the ground had fallen away beneath me.
