Hi from Madrid,

Radiologists have learned here to ask mothers to breastfeed/pump RIGHT
before the mammogram, and they can then get a pretty good image.

The American Cancer Society says:
Mammograms are not perfect at finding breast cancer. They do not work as
well in women with dense breasts, since dense breasts can hide a tumor.
Dense breasts are more common in younger women, pregnant women, and women
who are breastfeeding, but any woman can have dense breasts.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/moreinformation/breastcancerearlydetection/breast-cancer-early-detection-acs-recs-mammograms

Nowhere does it say "do not perform a mammogram on a breastfeeding mother.

Dr Fedro Peccatori also has many good papers and lectures about
breastcancer in breastfeeding women.

Warmly,
Kika

Carmela Baeza, MD, IBCLC
www.centroraices.com

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