Mammogram on a bus!

Eddiecat that would have been a good cover story for me. The joys of GC who share worries with you that their parents know nothing about. I'm honoured, I think.

@Allira I'm aware they don't call you after 70 but you can still request one. I've spoken to the BC screening centre and they were very helpful.

Everything is a long way for me as we live in an area with very 2nd rate NHS facilities. I had to drive a 2 hour round trip for my mammogram for the last 5 years. A private one will be in York which is a 90 minute drive.

I’ve always had my mammograms on a ‘bus’, in reality a mobile scanning unit. It’s situated in the local sports centre car park. How on earth is it undignified? And why would it matter that people know the reason you are going in there? 🤷‍♀️

Allira

RedRidingHood

Just grateful to get one. After my breast cancer I had a mammogram every year for 5 years but now I'm back to 3 yearly which is a bit nerve wracking. I plan to pay for a private one in between.
The NHS goes to great lengths to maximise uptake of screening (breast, lungs and bowel in particular). Theres always a cohort who go but also some groups who are hard to reach.
I'm involved as a volunteer in cancer services improvement and I was told that uptake of mammograms varies from 30% to 70% in different areas

It stops at age 71 even if you have had breast cancer.

You can request a mammogram but it could be at a hospital a long way away.

No, it doesn't. I've had breast cancer and I'll be having two more scheduled mammograms. The last one will be when I'm 72. I would have had five follow-up mammograms whatever age I was when I was diagnosed. I've already been told that, after that, I can book with my local screening service, which (admittedly) does mammograms in a "bus" in the local Tesco car park.

That’s a different situation than for people who have not had ever had breast cancer though growstuff, as yours is follow up rather than routine screening, I think if enough women opt to ask for routine screening to continue after 70, the age limit should be increased, because it’s quite arbitrary now.

Casdon

That’s a different situation than for people who have not had ever had breast cancer though growstuff, as yours is follow up rather than routine screening, I think if enough women opt to ask for routine screening to continue after 70, the age limit should be increased, because it’s quite arbitrary now.

The poster wrote:

It stops at age 71 even if you have had breast cancer.

No, it doesn't stop at 71 for people who've had breast cancer.

Visgir1

That's been going on for years... It's a mobile unit I think it's a brilliant idea always have.

Yup, a mobile unit not a caravan or a bus.
What does it matter? It’s better to go somewhere locally and easy and free to park isn’t it?