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In the late ’90s, Serge Muller urged his mother to go to a breast cancer screening just to be safe. It turned out to be a pivotal moment in both their lives.
“Her cancer was discovered because I insisted that she participate in a breast cancer screening she wanted to skip,” he reflects. “At that time, I really had the impression it saved her life.”
Dr. Rachel Brem and her husband, Henry, were hoping they just had the flu. It was early March, before COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, was widespread in the United States. Henry got sick first. For a little while, it was easy enough to dismiss his extreme fatigue as a passing issue. But then Brem, too, began to experience symptoms, some of which were known at the time to be associated with COVID-19 — such as a deep cough, muscle pain and a fever — and others that only became identified later, such as the loss of her sense of smell.
Apollo kept returning to her, prodding her left breast in this spot several times a week for about a month. Edelmann paid a visit to Dr. Ian Grady at North Valley Breast Clinic in California. She had had a recent mammogram and it came back normal. But Apollo’s insistence made her concerned.
He identifies two aspects of mammography as critical to accurate, early — before you may even feel a lump — detection of breast cancers: medical-image quality and adherence of women between the ages of 40 and 74 to bi-annual screening.
Encouraging more older women to have regular breast screenings is one of the current focus areas for local health authorities.
Why? Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Singapore today.