Is there anything you would want to say to people whve never been but maybe they’re a bit afraid of going, what would you say to them;

I would say that having seen women whve had a mammogram and have, you know theve found an abnormality, but it’s, as I said before, it’s been easily treated and I’ve seen the positive side to having a mammogram rather than not bothering and you know, maybe developing a severe malignancy;

So you would say go because….?

Absolutely, absolutely, yes.

Well this was the first mammogram I’ve ever had and I didn’t feel at all anxious about it. I mean you know that when you reach 50 yore going to have a mammogram and, in some ways, because I work with sort of women of my, the same age, we all sort, you know we talk about it, theres no anxiety involved at all. But also, because we are dealing with patients who have cancer, breast cancer, we realise the importance of having it now. You know, if it’s detected early enough that the treatment is positive.

Well, it’s sort of considered to be a sort of, how can I put it? A rite of passage, really. You know when you reach fifty, that’s it, you go for your mammogram and I don’t know, we just talk about it here and, you know, some people say “oh, it’s painful” and no, we just, how can I put it? We just accept it, it’s no big deal and. As I say, we all sort of enquire how it all went and you know, the results and things like that.