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Montreal woman dies at 32 after being told she was ‘too young for breast cancer’ (www.ctvnews.ca)

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A Montreal woman who was told by health-care professionals that she was too young for breast cancer but later diagnosed with it, has died from the disease. Valerie Buchanan was 32 when she died at the end of February.

“I keep asking myself why anyone, but selfishly, why her?” Chris Scheepers, Buchanan’s husband told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview. “She was a beautiful person. She was extremely driven, talented and positive. What really breaks me is our son won’t know the truly remarkable woman she was.”

Throughout 2020, Buchanan sought answers for a lump in her chest but had said she was reassured by multiple health-care professionals in Ottawa and Montreal that it was a benign cyst without sending her for imaging to confirm.

After 13 months, Buchanan eventually went to a private clinic and was diagnosed with Stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer – a biologically aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Just a few months later, she learned it was Stage 4.

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[–] LavaPlanet@lemm.ee 31 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

It's a thing everywhere that women are routinely told "it's anxiety / depression" etc, and aren't listened to. It takes years longer for women to receive diagnosis for anything. Advocate for the women in your life. Go to doctors appointments with them. Apparently if a man goes with them, they'll, more likely be listened to, team up with someone who won't take no for an answer. It's not just the car dealerships that women face issues, it's everywhere.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

It's simpler to say that doctors are morons. And I mean that in a very real sense, I suspect that part of medical school is a lobotomy. Without fail, doctors have been some of the dimmest brutes humanity has to offer.

[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

I can confirm this from first hand experience. The doctor's office I was seeing wouldn't answer my very basic questions, almost comically choosing to ignore or deflect me. I called my dad, he asked the same questions, and immediately got answered. I asked them why they wouldn't tell me that and they couldn't explain themselves. They gave me a halfhearted apology and I found a new doctor.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It works for trans men too. If I go to the Urgent Care, I will get better care if I can remain stealth.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I agree but as a healthcare worker it’s across the board, if you’re a woman, a minority, a blue collar worker, a poor person, the Canadian heath industry has increasingly brushed all of our issues under the rug as they cut more and more from healthcare

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Its not just canadian healthcare.

in America its much the same way.

Doctors are over worked, nurses are under staffed, no one wants to deal with anything that cant be diagnosed and solved in 2 minutes with a hastily written prescription. Even worse if you are poor, not white, have chronic issues, etc.

Last time I changed doctors (which was before covid), It took me 5 fucking years to find a doctor that would take me.. cause most of them wont even see potentially "problematic" patients.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

While I can agree with much of what you said, in my experience - almost without fail - male doctors I've seen to diagnose my twice-blown ACL and rotator cuff have dismissed me outright ... often mumbling that girls can't hurt themselves that bad at work.

It's gd aggravating at best. At worst I did more damage to both my knee and shoulder because the Drs didn't give any time off work at the sawmill.