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South China Morning Post
a day ago
- Health
- South China Morning Post
How doctor battled breast cancer then menopause, and found love along the way
Ahead of her 50th birthday, American internist Dr Lisa Larkin, an expert in menopause management, had been doing all the right things to live a long and healthy life, including having regular mammograms. Her most recent routine scan had turned up nothing untoward. Given the all-clear, she went off on a camping trip with her children to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa's highest peak. It was on this trip in late 2013 that she felt a large mass in her breast. The routine mammogram had not picked up the cancer because Larkin had very dense breasts ; as many as 40 to 50 per cent of women have them. Larkin and her children celebrate climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013. But it was on this trip that she first felt a large mass in her breast. Photo: Facebook/UCHealthCincinnati Breasts are made up of two types of tissue: glandular tissue and fatty tissue. If your tissue is more glandular than fatty, you have dense breasts. On a mammogram, dense tissue appears white when compared to fatty tissue. Abnormal growths also tend to be dense and white, so imaging of dense tissue does not always show a potentially cancerous lump.
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Health
- South China Morning Post
How doctor battled breast cancer then menopause, and found love along the way
Ahead of her 50th birthday, American internist Dr Lisa Larkin, an expert in menopause management, had been doing all the right things to live a long and healthy life, including having regular mammograms. Advertisement Her most recent routine scan had turned up nothing untoward. Given the all-clear, she went off on a camping trip with her children to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa's highest peak. It was on this trip in late 2013 that she felt a large mass in her breast. The routine mammogram had not picked up the cancer because Larkin had very dense breasts ; as many as 40 to 50 per cent of women have them. Larkin and her children celebrate climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013. But it was on this trip that she first felt a large mass in her breast. Photo: Facebook/UCHealthCincinnati Breasts are made up of two types of tissue: glandular tissue and fatty tissue. If your tissue is more glandular than fatty, you have dense breasts. Advertisement On a mammogram, dense tissue appears white when compared to fatty tissue. Abnormal growths also tend to be dense and white, so imaging of dense tissue does not always show a potentially cancerous lump.
