GMA & ABC reporter Amy Robach had a mammogram on tv. She announced her results today.
She has breast cancer and will undergo a double mastectomy. She's 40 and Robin Roberts pushed her into having it done.
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ABC anchor Amy Robach had avoided a mammogram screening for one year, by her own account, when a “Good Morning America” producer called her at the end of September and asked her to consider undergoing a televised mammogram.
Reluctantly, she agreed. “You know what, Amy,” her colleague Robin Roberts, a breast cancer survivor, told her, “if one life is saved because of early detection, it’s all worth it.”
On Oct. 1, as all the major television networks promoted the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ms. Robach submitted to the screening live on the show. A television camera discreetly showed the procedure. Normally, these morning-show segments end there. But unbeknown to viewers, the mammogram turned up evidence of cancer. On Monday Ms. Robach announced on “Good Morning America” that she would undergo a double mastectomy later this week.
“While everyone who gets cancer is clearly unlucky, I got lucky by catching it early, and there are so many people to thank for making sure I did,” Ms. Robach, 40, wrote in an ABC blog post that accompanied her announcement. “Every producer, every person who urged me to do this, changed my trajectory. The doctors told me bluntly, ‘That mammogram just saved your life.'”
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Response to Aristus (Reply #7)
I found my own cancer during self-exam. The problem was that it had also been detected on the mammogram six months earlier. The suspicious area on the film had been circled, with a question mark next to it. There was nothing in the written report to indicate there was anything at all that needed to be investigated further.
I was mailed the all clear post card.
As uncomfortable as the whole experience is for some, It is important to ask questions. Don't worry about how much of the doctor's time you are taking up. Ask to see all films. Also request a copy of the radiologist's report. Get a folder, and keep track of any changes from one year to the next.
If possible, get the mammogram/exam done by breast care specialsts. They are more likely to detect it sooner.
Remember, you are your own best advocate.
Me? I'm still here causing havoc 16 years later. 
I was extremely fortunate that my cancer was very slow-growing. The six month delay most likely kicked me up to a Stage 2, but the outcome could have been much worse under different circumstances.