Breast Cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Because my mom had breast cancer 23 years ago, I have been having mammograms done since 2007, at the age of 34. This year I am 44, the same age as when my mom was diagnosed. I have mostly been consistent with getting the mammograms done, with two gaps of a couple years and a few gaps of a year and a half in those 11 years. I had my yearly mammogram done last Friday, 13 months after my last one. I remember thinking when I went that I was the same age as when my mom received her diagnosis and having a feeling that this year I would get a call back for additional scans. When I checked the online portal on Monday evening for the results (first time that I had setup the portal for PennState Health), not expecting the results to be there yet, I found that unfortunately my feeling was correct. The report indicated a change in one of the scans of the right breast as compared to the last three mammograms and a request to have the patient com