Tell us about your breast cancer story and please also tell us what you would like women WITHOUT breast cancer to know.
You can also choose to e-mail us your story at info@densebreastscanada.ca. Photos are welcome. Thank you for sharing your story and helping to inform other women.
Stories
Kelsey
Hi, my name is Kelsey. I am no stranger to the impacts of cancer, having seen its effects on family as early as six years old. I work in healthcare as a surgical services clerk and genuinely enjoy my work, helping patients receive care from behind the scenes. Outside of work, I am a bird…
Denise
I am living proof that supplemental breast cancer screening can save lives. For years, I followed all the rules – I had regular mammograms starting at age 40. I am now 52. Every single one came back ‘clear.’ But I also have type D breast tissue: extremely dense, the kind that can mask cancer on…
Lindsay
The Letter That Saved My Life At 40, I was busy. Enjoying the chaotic life as a mother who was loving up her 3 children, one who was just 2 years old, my own health wasn’t my top consideration let’s just say. My breast exam with my GP took a strange turn. Her face indicated…
Shari
My first brush with breast cancer was when I was 11 years old and my mother was diagnosed at the age of 39 after finding a lump. She was treated with a partial mastectomy and radiation therapy. Thirteen years later she passed away at the age of 52 while I was in my first term…
Janice
Hi, I’m Janice I’m Irish. I’m a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, an aunty and a friend. I work as a professor in a business school. I moved to Canada with my husband and two boys in 2019. Before that, I lived in France for 15 years, where I successfully integrated the French…
Kandis
At the age of 50 in December 2023 with a requisition for my first ever screening mammogram, 20+ years’ experience in diagnostic imaging, no symptoms (lump), and no family history of breast cancer, I arrived for my appointment without worry. I began my career as an ultrasound tech in 2002. Over the years, I have…
Heather
I did everything right. I followed the guidelines. I trusted the system. And yet, I was failed. I’m Heather Brister, a 48-year-old kindergarten teacher, mother of three, and now, a breast cancer survivor—though that word barely covers the sheer hell I’ve endured over the past few years. It all started in May 2021 when I…
Liz
One-year post breast-conserving surgery, and I want to share my story. My breast care journey began nearly 40 years ago when, in my mid-twenties, I discovered a lump in my breast. After having it removed, I anxiously awaited the results—thankfully, it was a benign cyst. Over the next decade, I underwent two more cyst removals…
Heather
I thought I would share here so others would as well. I’m 44, but I was 43 when I found my lump in my right breast. I live in Manitoba. Every year my best friend and I go on a girls’ trip, and last year’s trip in November was to Portugal. It was 3 days…
