Over the past 20 years, Dr. Marisa Weiss has treat thousands of women diagnose with breast cancer. But in April of 2010, the creator of the website breastcancer.org found herself on the other side of the investigative table. After a routine mammogram, she was diagnose with a breast tumor. "When it happen to me, it was a shock," the oncologist tells Terry Gross. "I was a very busy person and during a very busy day like anyone else, I had to rush up to the mammography department, get all the clothes off, wait in that gown, wait to be called and I thought it was now going to be like any other year."
The radiologist who inspect Weiss' films told her that he saw something worrisome and was not sure what it was. "Those words were grave words," she recalls. "And I got an meeting to come back the after that day." After another mammogram inveterate calcifications in her breast, Weiss had an MRI a more responsive diagnostic test for dense breasts like hers. "After the MRI, I came out and looked at the faces of the radiology technicians who function the machines and they would not look at me," she says.
"They were shun my look. So I know then that it was severe. And then I go from there to the radiology reading room to meet with a radiologist who pull the images fresh up on the screen and like a glow bulb there it was, a tumor in my left breast that was obviously a cancer." Weiss is lucky. Her cancer was discovered early on and her prognosis is excellent. She says without a custom mammogram, she might not have been so fortunate. In 2009, a report issue by the U.S. preventive Services job Force said that mammograms were needless for women under 50 and women over 50 only needed mammograms each other year.
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The radiologist who inspect Weiss' films told her that he saw something worrisome and was not sure what it was. "Those words were grave words," she recalls. "And I got an meeting to come back the after that day." After another mammogram inveterate calcifications in her breast, Weiss had an MRI a more responsive diagnostic test for dense breasts like hers. "After the MRI, I came out and looked at the faces of the radiology technicians who function the machines and they would not look at me," she says.
"They were shun my look. So I know then that it was severe. And then I go from there to the radiology reading room to meet with a radiologist who pull the images fresh up on the screen and like a glow bulb there it was, a tumor in my left breast that was obviously a cancer." Weiss is lucky. Her cancer was discovered early on and her prognosis is excellent. She says without a custom mammogram, she might not have been so fortunate. In 2009, a report issue by the U.S. preventive Services job Force said that mammograms were needless for women under 50 and women over 50 only needed mammograms each other year.
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