Earlier this year, I made my dutiful annual pilgrimage to have my breasts compressed between paddles like a sandwich in a panini press. Four hours later, I received a call from a nurse at the breast center who calmly told me there was a change in my left breast: two mysterious lumps. I needed to return for a second round of imaging to include another mammogram and maybe an ultrasound.
Being called back for another mammogram happens often and can be for a few different reasons—namely, the pictures aren’t clear enough, the breast tissue has changed since your last mammogram, or there’s a spot that looks suspicious or different from other parts of the breast, among others. While fewer than one in 10 people who are called back for a repeat mammogram have cancer, when I hung up the phone, unease and uncertainty rippled through my mind.
Fewer than one in
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