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Speaker 1: So the good news about what's you know devolved into

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Speaker 1: or evolved into breast week, yes, is that I'm not

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Speaker 1: the only one that has made a mammogram appointment this week.

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Speaker 1: Few of our listeners of centers a text saying they've

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Speaker 1: done it too. So today we've got Susan Greenwood, who

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Speaker 1: is a radiographer at.

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Speaker 2: Breastscreen w Way, coming to join us. Susan, thank you so.

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Speaker 1: Much, thank you for inviting me, and I am all

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Speaker 1: set for tomorrow afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I'm in. So how does the mammogram appointment usually work?

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Speaker 3: You come in, We've got some paperwork to do, We

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Speaker 3: do all of that stuff beforehand, and then we take

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Speaker 3: you through to a private area where you can get changed.

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Speaker 3: You come into our x ray room. One of the

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Speaker 3: radiographers such as myself, will talk you through what we're

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Speaker 3: going to do, show you the machine. The actual imaging

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Speaker 3: takes about six minutes, okay, and then once we're finished,

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Speaker 3: we're going to go through how long it will take

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Speaker 3: you to get results. We'll get them to you as

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Speaker 3: soon as possible. So the results are not going to

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Speaker 3: have and on the day not going to happen a

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Speaker 3: little bit later, after two doctors have a look at

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Speaker 3: those pictures, and we hold your hand through everything and

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Speaker 3: make sure that you know what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Now, when you say six minutes, is that three minutes

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Speaker 2: each boop?

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Speaker 3: About?

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Speaker 2: So it's about a minute per boob a minute. That's okay,

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Speaker 2: position in time, I can, I can do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But you are not compressed for six minutes. You're

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Speaker 3: not pressed for only a few seconds each.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, good, good.

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Speaker 1: So what are you looking for when you're conducting the screening?

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Speaker 1: Are you just gathering the information to hand on to

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Speaker 1: the doctors.

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Speaker 3: That's right, I'm looking for getting the best possible pictures

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Speaker 3: for you. Aha. And one of our keys is getting

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Speaker 3: you relaxed enough because we do need to handle your

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Speaker 3: breasts quite a lot. That's really intrusive and intimidating for

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Speaker 3: some women.

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Speaker 2: Weird.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, it's not a dignified test. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: it can save your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: That is why we put up with it. And it's

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Speaker 3: u it's not too too bad. Most women leave.

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Speaker 1: Going yeah, well it's all. It's never as bad as

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Speaker 1: you work up in your head that it's going to be.

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Speaker 1: I was advised, I must warn everyone. I was advised

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Speaker 1: not to wear deodorant on the day, so in clarsy

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Speaker 1: his interest because I get up at four in the

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Speaker 1: morning and I'm not doing my screen until three thirty

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. Can I wear it in the morning and

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Speaker 1: then yes, and I won't and wash it off. I

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Speaker 1: won't read deodorized later in the day. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: So you say we're only compressed for a couple of seconds.

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Speaker 2: So on. On a discomfort scale, always.

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Speaker 1: The answer is going to be better than better than chemotherapy.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, but that's it's quite reasonable to be nervous coming

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Speaker 3: in for that. Most of us find it uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: some of us find it an absolute breeze. But remember

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Speaker 3: your radiographer is with you the whole time that compression

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Speaker 3: is going on. If at any stage you need to stop,

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Speaker 3: you tell us. We work with you to get the pictures.

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Speaker 3: It's not that we're leaving you alone at any stage.

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Speaker 2: How many people do screen a day.

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Speaker 3: Twenty eight ladies per radiographer for wow, Yeah, we see

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Speaker 3: someone every fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 3: All right, so it is, but where it's ample time

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, So how and how often should people be

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Speaker 3: To seventy four. The recommendations are every two years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, right, but people can approach you for an appointment

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Speaker 1: younger if they feel like they might be, you know,

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Speaker 3: History, fadly history. Any woman from forty can contact us

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Speaker 3: an appointment. And even ladies after seventy four are welcome

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Speaker 1: And what about the fellas. We know that men get

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Speaker 1: breast cancer too. We had one call this week and

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Speaker 1: they're probably not doing active lump testing themselves and not

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Speaker 1: booking themselves in for mammograms. So usually they're probably finding

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Speaker 2: Is that what happens?

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Speaker 3: Usually we don't We don't screen men with breast screen. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: If they find if they have a strong family history

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Speaker 3: less than one percent of men develop breast cancer. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and so it's straight to the GP if there's concerns.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it definitely does happen.

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Speaker 4: Since I'm talking about the fear that least it's been

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Speaker 4: talking about and when women of putting it off and

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Speaker 4: putting it off. But once you've gone and had one

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Speaker 4: test done, then that next time two years later, it

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Speaker 4: must be so much easier for them because I've been.

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Speaker 2: So much eesy, you know what to expect completely.

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Speaker 3: So yes, it's if you're having problems getting there the

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Speaker 3: first time. Book with a friend. Yes, we will happily

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Speaker 3: co book you.

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Speaker 2: With we had.

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Speaker 1: I loved one of our texts when we were talking

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Speaker 1: about it the other day, said, I make my booking

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Speaker 1: with a friend, then we go for lunch. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: my kind of screenings and my kind of friend.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think that's a brilliant idea. I reckon it's

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Speaker 1: You know, when you've been a bit sick and then

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Speaker 1: feel so good. I reckon, this is how I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: feel tomorrow night. Once I've done it, and it's done,

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Speaker 1: and there's no way it's going to be as uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: as you know, I've got it worked up in my

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Speaker 3: It won't and I always say, ladies, you won't enjoy

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Speaker 3: the invite from us, but you will love walking out

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Speaker 3: of our clinic knowing what you've done for yourself absolutely,

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Speaker 3: which is check yourself. Because if we find things early,

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Speaker 3: treatment is so much better.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing we do.

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Speaker 1: Hear those words early, the importance of early detection a lot,

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Speaker 1: but they I mean it really is it really is

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Speaker 1: the life and death difference.

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Speaker 3: Yes, With mimmography, we will find something at the size

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Speaker 3: or your GP will feel it, it's much larger. So

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Speaker 3: we find it before you can feel it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm feeling grains of rice.

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Speaker 3: That's why screening is the answer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah all right, yeah yeah, Well something that small can

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Speaker 4: be confused with the dense tissue, I guess.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's the specialization of our radiologists. Yeah, to

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Speaker 3: read those mammograms. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, Susan as you tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in and talking us

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Speaker 1: through what actually happens on the day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: Thank your role reversal. For you to tomorrow, one of

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Speaker 4: we'll be in their comfort. Zoner the other night. Thank you, Susan,

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Speaker 4: all this