Nun boobs are good to go.

[sistawendy]

I had my second-ever mammogram yesterday, the first in over four years, and it was normal. I've been told the following things about my risk for breast cancer:

1. There's no data on trans women's breast cancer risk. Zippo. Nada.
2. However, the conventional wisdom speculation is that since I started hormones so late in life - 42, to be exact - my risk should be pretty low, all other things being equal.
3. Except of course that they're not equal. Having estrogen levels higher than anything that occurs in cisgender women, which my docs have always tried to avoid but have happened nevertheless, especially early on, is as you'd expect Not A Good Thing.

Comments

[solarbird]

...that's interesting, because I've read a study on exactly that. It was old and the sample size wasn't great, and the results corresponded to what is now conventional speculation.

I wonder what happened to it?

[sistawendy]

Ah, the first person to tell me that was the mammogram tech from four years ago. She volunteered that information, so she probably didn't know about the study you read. Last week's mammogram tech didn't know about anything either.

[solarbird]

I think it was German. I read it in English, but I think it was a German study, and Americans do have a habit of missing published research from Europe.

(I just a couple of months ago handed off a potentially significant paper on enamel regeneration to my dentist, a study also European in origin - he'd never heard of it, despite it being in a Nature-related publication, published in English, and in his field. So.)

[trystbat]

Since there's no significant data, just keep checking at regular intervals? I mean, that's essentially what most women do *shrug*

[sistawendy]

That's the plan.