Early Detection, Mammograms & Breast Cancer Care with Dr. Rachel Brem

We Can Do Hard Things

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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320. Early Detection, Mammograms & Breast Cancer Care with Dr. Rachel Brem Amanda shares an update on her recovery from breast cancer. Then, renowned breast cancer expert, Dr. Rachel Brem, joins the conversation to discuss the critical importance of early detection, breast density's impact on mammography, and when we need additional screenings. Discover: -The differing guidance on screenings and the truth about how often you should actually get screened for cancer; -Advice on what to say to your doctors to make sure that you get the screening you need and so that they can be covered under insurance; and -How to learn how dense your breasts are and what to do with that information. On Dr. Rachel Brem: Dr. Rachel Brem is the author of No Longer Radical: Understanding Mastectomies and Choosing the Breast Cancer Care That's Right For You. Dr. Brem is an internationally known breast cancer expert who has been instrumental in developing and implementing new technologies to improve breast cancer detection. She is Professor and Director of Breast Imaging and Intervention at George Washington University, Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiology, and Chief Medical Advisor and Cofounder of the Brem Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging. Find more resources at The Brem Foundation Website: https://www.bremfoundation.org/ Check out Dr. Brem’s Book, No Longer Radical: https://www.nolongerradical.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:13.0	So many of you have been reaching out to us to check on Amanda and how she's doing.
0:21.0	If you don't know, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
0:26.2	She came and did the update for us on that
0:28.8	and then she had a double mastectomy.
0:31.3	She talked to us after that and now she's going to give us the latest update as now we are
0:38.9	many weeks past the double mastectomy. So we're very grateful that she's gonna update us
0:45.0	and we're so grateful for all of your love
0:48.0	and support and questions checking in on her.
0:50.6	So, hi Amanda.
0:53.0	Hello, G Bird and Abby.
0:56.0	Yes, everyone has been absolutely, amazingly supportive and it's, know when you think about one in six women will have
1:06.2	breast cancer sometime in their lives I guess it shouldn't be shocking that so many
1:10.9	of the comments and feedback were you know that was me 10 years ago or that is
1:16.7	me this week or that is my mom or you know all of it touches everybody but the very very wonderful news is that my pathology came
1:27.1	back absolute best-case scenario there were no positive margins, meaning there's the part that they took out, was clear of any cancer,
1:38.9	so it wouldn't be touching tissue that remains in there.
1:43.0	And they had five close margins,
1:45.0	and also they were able to do some diagnostics
1:48.0	on the kind of cancer that was in there,
1:51.0	and it was a very dumb kind of cancer that was in there and it was a very dumb kind of cancer in terms of like they can rate how aggressive it could be and how likely it is to spread quickly and in other words how smart and conniving it can be and
2:08.6	mine was very foolish so it was a slow moving situation and we thought originally that there might be a
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