Episode 03: What Everyone with Breasts Needs to Know About Screening

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👩‍⚕️ Featuring Dr. Harriet Borofsky, Medical Director of Breast Imaging, Riverview and Bayshore Medical Centers, Hackensack Meridian Health 

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🚨 Why You Must Listen:
If you have breasts—or love someone who does—this episode could save a life. Joelle sits down with Dr. Harriet Borofsky, a breast imaging pioneer, to cut through the confusion and tell you what your doctor might not about screening, breast density, and early detection. No fluff. Just facts and life-saving insights.

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💥 Key Things You’ll Learn:
✅ Mammograms miss 20% of cancers—especially in women with dense breasts
✅ Breast density is genetic, common, and increases cancer risk
✅ You can and should be screened while pregnant or breastfeeding
✅ Most women with breast cancer have no family history
✅ New tools like AI & contrast-enhanced mammograms are changing the game
✅ What to ask your doctor about screening frequency, breast density, and risk
✅ What NOT to ignore: the real red flags that need urgent attention
✅ Why screening is not just for women over 50—and waiting could be deadly

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🧬 Why It Matters:

• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women—and rising in younger women
  
• 75% of diagnoses are in women with no family history
  
• Dense breast tissue hides cancer—and most people don’t know they have it
  
• Early detection saves lives and leads to less toxic, more effective treatment
  

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👩‍⚕️ Meet Dr. Harriet Borofsky:
Dr. Borofsky is one of the most respected and progressive breast imaging experts in the country. With over 30 years of clinical experience, she founded and led a women’s health center in Northern California known for its early adoption of advanced screening technologies like 3D mammography, ultrasound, contrast-enhanced imaging, and AI.

She’s a fierce advocate for personalized screening—especially for women with dense breasts or genetic risk—and has helped shape local and national guidelines around breast health. More than that, she’s known for her deep compassion, having personally called thousands of patients with biopsy results—something most doctors delegate.

Joelle calls her “the doctor who changed my life”—and after hearing this episode, you’ll understand why.

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🧠 Quick Tips to Take Action Today:

1. Ask your doctor: “What kind of breast tissue do I have?”
   
2. Know your risk: Get a risk assessment by age 25
   
3. Don’t ignore changes: Lumps, nipple changes, skin pulling = get checked
   
4. Push back if dismissed: No one knows your body like you
   
5. Support the Find It Early Act—so everyone gets access to the right screening
   

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👩‍⚕️ About Dr. Harriet Borofsky:
30-year breast imaging specialist. Tech-forward thinker. Advocate for equity. The woman who built the center that found Joelle’s tumor—and changed her life.

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🔗 Resources & Actions:

• Find an ACR-Accredited Breast Imaging Center
  
• Support the Find It Early Act (Insert link when available)
  
• Get informed: DenseBreast-info.org
  

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🎧 Tune In, Share, and Save Lives:
This episode is for daughters, partners, moms, uncles, dads—everyone. Share it. Bookmark it. Start the conversation.

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“If you feel a lump—even with a normal mammogram—don’t ignore it. Period.”
– Dr. Harriet Borofsky

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