Note: this story was produced for the ear. We recommend listening, if you are able. Last year, I had the chance to do something I’d only ever heard about — a lot about — but had never experienced ...

There are a few milestone birthdays that are coupled with landmark health screenings. Though there is some disagreement nowadays on when to get a mammogram, I put it on my radar for my 40th birthday.

2024 has been a big year for me. I turned 40 in April. It’s an age I have dreaded for the past ten years. Not for any particular reason, but I suspect it has something to do with wanting to hold onto ...

I had my first mammogram in October. I had complained of a sensitivity around my right breast to my doctor. He first ordered a chest x-ray, which revealed no injury nor the presence of anything out of ...

I ignored the mammogram notification that popped up in my health network’s online portal when I turned 40. It was the summer of 2020, and breast cancer seemed like a remote health concern in the ...

My mother died from metastatic breast cancer just shy of her 58th birthday. So I wasn’t surprised when, during a routine mammogram, doctors found something in my left breast that warranted a closer ...