Re: Question for women about dense breast tissue andbreast cancer

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Toni. Losing your sister must have been difficult. Very sad. Thanks for

sharing the info.

Re: Question for women about dense breast tissue and

breast cancer

> I read online that women with dense breast tissue are nearly 20 times more

likely to get breast cancer and that their dense breast tissue makes seeing the

cancer very difficult.

Yes, dense breasts are more likely in the young and those with big breasts.

It is more difficult to see cancer in dense breasts. It is just a fact, nothing

new. It means mammography is not that effective at detecting cancer.

Checking one's own breasts, lying flat, using fingers touching breasts in

circular pattern from outside to nipple is the most effective, most common way

of detecting lumps and checking lumps to see if they are growing.

Many women's sex partners find lumps. Then they can check them later, next week,

next month, before panicking it may be cancer.

Most lumps are not cancer. Chocolate and caffeine consumption cause most

non-cancerous lumps. I've barely ever drunk coffee, but, not giving up dark

chocolate which helps with symptoms of CFS/OI. And, I really enjoy dark

chocolate.

This is information I have gleaned from 4 decades of visits with gynecologists

and what I have read about breast cancer and breast lumps. I no longer worry

about breast cancer or breast lumps. If diagnosed, I doubt I would undergo

surgery to remove cancer but I am 63 and have lived a lot.