Empowering patients with advanced breast imaging

I’m very diligent about my breast cancer screening, but I have very small breasts and find mammograms unbelievably painful.  The last time the compression was almost unbearable, and I needed multiple passes with the machine. Next time I’m taking pain medication before I step foot in that office.

I have a family history of breast cancer and I’m always so anxious when I’m scheduled for a mammogram.  Every time, due to having dense breasts, I get called back for an additional ultrasound screening.  I swear the anxiety and terror I experience waiting for my results is taking years off my life.

I can’t express how much I hate being crowded into that little room, wearing that hospital gown, and waiting anxiously for my mammogram. It seems like it takes hours, and every woman in the room looks scared to death.  I swear, if men got breast cancer more often it wouldn’t still be like this.