Breast cancer related to mammogram radiation exposure in women under 30?
http://www.komonews.com/news/health/...168918546.html

With love, Erika

Lets not forget:

The patient in question at age 28 had an obvious lump.
Routinely mammograms are not given to young women UNLESS there is a serious history of breast cancer in the family.
When I had a small change in my mammogram.....the docs went straight to an ultrasound.
Also: Thank God for digital mammography. It shows a much better picture of whats going on.

If you have something strange going on at any age...........get it checked out. If you still have doubts............get a second opinions or ask a lot more questions!

mother had a leaking painful breast with a lump. Took her to a gyno doc. He said it was nothing to worry about. His words were "Don't loose any sleep over this, you just let me worry about it"

ah, excuuusssse me doc - will you do the dying for us too? Thank God we got her a 2nd opinion from a breast specialist. She had surgery within days. (all is healthy now, but life got scary really quickly)

Just saying -- I don't think a gyno doctor was the place to go anyway.

The higher risk of getting breast cancer for these younger women who had mammograms had to do with what genes they were carrying for breast cancer. In this instance the genes are BRCA1 or BRCA2.

In hindsight your right, but we had to start somewhere. We didn't know where to go or what we were dealing with - just that something wasn't right. So we called her PCP. PCP said to have ob/gyn check it out, thinking he would then point us to the right place (via an educated referal).

as my grandmother used to say "There you go thinking again!"