I found my fast-growing lump one month after a "good" mammogram. Had I not done self-exam, I'd be dead right now and writing you from the Great Beyond.

Both self-exam and mammogram are necessary. Sometimes one finds what the other doesn't.

As far as the line from the study that "mammograms can be stressful" ... lemme tell ya, that stress is nothing compared to the joys of chemo.
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