Some radiologists are calling on Quebec to increase access to 3D mammograms, which experts say can detect more cancers and reduce the need for follow-up exams.
Annie Slight, an advocate for better and faster detection of breast cancer, supports this call.
“From the time I felt the small lump [in my breast], to the moment I received my diagnosis, it took 14 months,” says the Saint-Constant, Que. resident.
Slight was 40 years old when she was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer.
“A lot can happen with an aggressive cancer, especially since I was so young,”said Slight, who is now 54.
Although Slight is cancer-free today, she still wonders if an earlier diagnosis would have spared her some harm.
“Chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy, reconstructive surgeries, hysterectomy — it was years of treatments and surgeries,” she said.
To achieve faster screening, radiologist Dr. Grégoire Bernèche said Quebec should take advantage of 3D …