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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Breast cancer in younger women is on the rise, insurance will cover it yearly so that’s what I would recommend, as someone whose breast cancer was detected at an early stage on a mammogram. [/quote]

Same. A mammogram caught my breast cancer at 43. Surgery, radiation, and tamoxifen. No chemo because it was caught early. Get your mammograms![/quote]

Also, I was not high risk prior to getting diagnosed. I am BRCA and other gene mutation negative. No real family history. My biggest risk factor was dense breasts, which is extremely common. And being a woman. [/quote]

Exact same situation for me.  I am headed to surgery and likely some radiation. No family history and I'm glad for my annual mammograms.  I don't think mammograms or even follow up u/s for women with dense breast tissue (that's many of us) is overkill or over prescribing. Obviously, the vast majority of those will show no issue.  That's not the right question.  It's how many early breast cancers do they catch?  Stage 1 breast cancer is 99% survivable, and some types of breast tumors grow very fast, where treatment gets more and more expensive and prognosis goes down. [/quote]

DP with Stage 1 BC diagnosis at 49 (no family history). I am also on track for surgery, radiation, and tamoxifen, and am highly likely to not need chemo. Thank God for my proactive OB-GYN who wrote a prescription for 3D mammograms when I mentioned dense breast tissue. I noticed the lump after I was flagged on the mammogram, but I have no idea how long it would've taken me to notice it without mammograms.     [/quote]

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