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.