Dr. Lisa Larkin, an expert in menopause management, discovered a breast mass during a challenging climb.
In late 2013, just before her 50th birthday, American internist Dr. Lisa Larkin felt a significant lump in her breast. This discovery happened while she was on a camping trip with her children, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, located in Tanzania. This was particularly startling because her most recent routine mammogram had shown no abnormalities, and she had received an all-clear.
Breasts are composed of two primary tissue types: glandular tissue and fatty tissue. When glandular tissue is more prevalent than fatty tissue, a person is said to have dense breasts.
On a mammogram, dense tissue appears white. Because cancerous growths also tend to be dense and white, they can sometimes be obscured on these images, making it challenging to detect a lump within dense breast tissue.
