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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "trick" is that once a non-invasive cancer is found there is no (ZERO) way of knowing if there is also an invasive cancer lurking within the breast. Or if that non-invasive cancer will progress to an invasive form down the line. And if it does, will it be found in time? If you have dense breast tissue no amount of diagnostic testing can give you any peace of mind that nothing else is in there.

Signed - 
BC Survivor

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It is not true that there aren't screening tools for dense breasts. Breast MRIs work perfectly fine on dense breasts and 3-D ultrasounds are pretty good as well.

Mammograms do have radiation and carry a small risk of cancer. The newer mammograms less so than the old. Its all cost-benefit. At younger ages they are going to catch fewer cancers to make that risk worthwhile.

Really all of these screening tools are inadequate since most cancers that will metastasize have done so before they are detected and the ones that are slower growing won't metastasize for a very long time and can be caught in time when you feel them yourselves. I'm a breast cancer survivor myself and I still get mammograms (and breast MRIs) but I don;t put a lot of faith in them/[/quote]

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