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Hi everyone, It’s Jennie Dale, Cofounder of Dense Breasts Canada. We’re excited to announce the launch our second platform, MyBreastScreening.ca. Why a second site? Over the past five years, my Cofounder, Michelle Di Tomaso, and I, along with our medical advisor, Dr. Paula Gordon, and so many dedicated team members have been advocating for change…

  This year’s theme for #IWD2021 is #ChooseToChallenge. We want to hug whoever chose it. Every day, we #ChooseToChallenge the inequities impacting the health of Canadian women. We know that Canadian women’s lives can be saved by eliminating inequalities surrounding early detection of breast cancer. Here are inequalities we would like to see eliminated. Inequality…

When I first saw this picture of Violet, many things went through my mind. First it was Violet, you’re gorgeous. Then it was, oh that phone! I remember that phone from the 60s. Mine wasn’t red, but I spent hours daily on a phone just like that. I then remembered the analogy that breast screening…

Radiation and mammograms There is background radiation all around us. This includes cosmic radiation from the sun and stars, radioactive material in rocks and in the ground, radon gas in the air, and radioactive substances in water and organic material. Therefore, not all radiation is harmful. Natural radiation is greater at higher elevation because there’s…

Libby has a lot going on in her life as she deals with Stage 4 breast cancer, but she has taken the time to share lessons she has learned. Her hope is that they can make a difference in someone’s life so that cancer can be found at a more treatable stage. Thank you for…

Discrimination and inequality are not words usually heard around the issue of breast density, but we have to agree with Dr. Paula Gordon, who in her latest presentation https://youtu.be/7uFksz6_4Zk stated that women with dense breasts are discriminated against. Let’s explore. 1.Women with dense breasts are discriminated against based on the province they live in Currently,…

“Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.” Morgan Harper Nichols We are very grateful to Melanie Cameron for sharing her experience and words of wisdom about breast self- exam, clinical exam and hormones for IVF. Learning from my story. My name is Melanie…

Whew! If you’ve ever had a mammogram, you know that feeling of relief when that letter arrives in the mail saying your results are ‘normal.’ Most women exhale and then toss the letter in the garbage. But we ask, hold on! You need to do one more thing for yourself: find out your breast density.…

  In 2014, I went for a routine mammogram and screening ultrasound. I know that being sent for both tests for a routine checkup is not the norm in Ontario or Canada, but my doctor is an unusual one. The ultrasound picked up a cancerous tumour that the mammogram had missed. Not only did my…