I recently had a mammogram and was looking at it with the technician.
Unusual, here in the US the films are usually hidden from the patient.  We had
chatted and she knew what I do so she thought I might be interested in looking
at it closely.  It was very interesting.  Not only did I see the cysts that
always send me to the sonogram room but she showed me how breasts, as they
approach menopause, begin to involute.  She told me that by this time, at the
grand age of 50, the breasts do not have the structure that they did 10 years
ago.  I can see if I had been a wetnurse and continually nursed for many years
this may not have happened-the old "use it or lose it".  She pulled out
someone else's mammogram, a younger person, and I could see differences that
she mentioned.  Interesting, but not definitive, I'm sure.  This may have had
something to do with the WIC risk code being written the way it was.  I know
some of the people on the committee that developed these codes and will try
tofind out what their thinking was.  They are very "in touch" folks and have
been working lactation issues for many years with the WIC Program nationally.

Linda J. Inglis BS, IBCLC
Palm Harbor, FL
Putting on my sneakers for a game of tennis this morning...outdoors!