Menopause Chicks1 Okt 2023

It's About Breast Density with Jennie Dale

Are you ready to be your own best breast advocate?

Listen in and learn…

What dense breasts are, how common they are, what you need to know and what the implications of having dense breasts can be.
Why having dense breasts can make it harder to spot cancer on a mammogram
The advocacy work Dense Breasts Canada is doing to get provinces to inform women of their breast density status
Province-to-province disparities for minimum recommended age to begin breast cancer screening.
What supplemental screening is and the differences between an ultrasound and an MRI.
Province-to-province disparities for supplemental screening and why we need to advocate to make supplemental screening mandatory for all women with dense breasts.
How to find out your breast density if your province isn’t automatically reporting that information, and where to find this information if you don’t have a family doctor.
How this important information impacts women of colour
Jennie’s wish for breast health in Canada.

Links from this week’s episode:

Dense Breasts Canada Website

Dense Breasts Canada Advocacy Tookit

Dense Breasts Canada on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/densebreastscanada/

BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:

VICHY

Ferapro Iron

Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer

Intimate Wellbeing

Oh Boy Productions

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Shirley Weir is the founder of Menopause Chicks and a passionate advocate for women's health education. She's on a mission to change the narrative around menopause and empower women to become their best health advocates.

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