If you could detect a potentially fatal disease with a test, would you do it? In breast cancer, early detection is very important, because it considerably improves survival rates. However, there are many women who do not undergo this test for fear of the process itself.
In this regard, Marta Riesco has opened up with her followers through her Instagram Stories. The journalist shared an image of her in a medical center, where her foot could be seen and dressed in a gown, waiting for a test. She risked revealing that she was having a mammogram, proof that she had been delaying it longer than she should, despite having a family history of breast cancer.
"I'm embarrassed to tell you something, but I'm going to do it in case it's useful to any of you," the one who was a reporter for The Ana Rosa Program for years began by writing, "I haven't had mammograms for almost three years out of fear. My grandmother had cancer. of breast and I have always been delaying the appointment.
The journalist confesses that during those three years, she made "any excuse" and canceled, but she had finally decided to take the step. "Today I am here, scared, but without canceling the appointment," she stated bluntly.
"I couldn't find a nicer doctor. He started talking to me about other topics because it gave me something to worry about. What a pleasure there are doctors like that," the reporter said after the test. Her fears, however, were not just her thing. Dozens of her followers on her social networks contacted the journalist to confide in her that they felt the same fears when it came to taking the test.
"Another thing I have done. With fear, but I have done it. I am proud, because after three years of systematically canceling them, today I finally said: 'Today is the day, I am open to everything.' This, although It may seem silly to many of you, people who have this fear of medical tests and these things, you will understand me," she explained, adding that she was surprised by so many messages: "I am surprised that there are so many people with this problem. We have to get tested. ".
This disease is the first cause of death from cancer in Spain in women, ahead of others such as lung or colorectal cancer. It is the most common tumor in women, but also the one with the highest survival rate (more than 70%, according to the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology SEOM).
Despite everything, and being one of the few with a valid diagnostic method, many women avoid having a mammogram out of fear of the results or even lack of confidence in the test itself, especially in those of age in which Cancer may be more prevalent, which is in women over 45 years of age.
Experts highlight the importance of performing this type of early detection tests, which are essential to be able to offer effective solutions when cancer is still in an early stage.
