For some reason, I had always had a lingering fear of breast cancer since a child. I think it was an Eastenders story back in the 1980s which triggered it which meant when I started developing breasts, my first thought was that the breast buds must have been cancer. I then developed breast fibroadenomas in my 20s but since then all had been quiet. I recently moved to a European country where they do breast screening from 45. I’ve always had lumpy breasts and still had fibroadenomas which had been there for 20 years. However, I wasn’t expected anything to come of the mammogram. The initial mammogram and ultrasound showed calcification in the one breast and it looked different to the other one. The doctor didn’t seemed overly concerned but suggested an MRI the next month to take a better look at everything. The MRI rolled round and again there was no huge sense of urgency but a biopsy was suggested to double-check and it seemed that if it was anything, it would be caught early.
