{"id":3729,"date":"2025-08-17T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3729\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:57:07","slug":"how-doctor-battled-breast-cancer-then-menopause-and-found-love-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/3729\/","title":{"rendered":"How doctor battled breast cancer then menopause, and found love along the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ahead of her 50th birthday, American internist Dr Lisa Larkin, an expert in menopause management, had been doing all the right things to live a long and healthy life, including having regular mammograms.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent routine scan had turned up nothing untoward. Given the all-clear, she went off on a camping trip with her children to climb <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3266418\/how-climbing-mount-kilimanjaro-brought-4-hong-kong-friends-closer-together?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mount Kilimanjaro<\/a> in Tanzania, Africa\u2019s highest peak.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was on this trip in late 2013 that she felt a large mass in her breast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larkin and her children celebrate climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013. But it was on this trip that she first felt a large mass in her breast. Photo: Facebook\/UCHealthCincinnati\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e680612a-5deb-4cf6-b0c5-eae535547e11_590d36de.jpg\" title=\"Larkin and her children celebrate climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013. But it was on this trip that she first felt a large mass in her breast. Photo: Facebook\/UCHealthCincinnati\"\/>Larkin and her children celebrate climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013. But it was on this trip that she first felt a large mass in her breast. Photo: Facebook\/UCHealthCincinnati<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Breasts are made up of two types of tissue: glandular tissue and fatty tissue. If your tissue is more glandular than fatty, you have dense breasts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On a mammogram, dense tissue appears white when compared to fatty tissue. Abnormal growths also tend to be dense and white, so imaging of dense tissue does not always show a potentially cancerous lump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of her 50th birthday, American internist Dr Lisa Larkin, an expert in menopause management, had been doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[4147,4139,4148,4144,4138,4141,4143,18,135,19,17,4137,4142,4140,4149,4146,4145,4150],"class_list":{"0":"post-3729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-acupuncture","9":"tag-breast-cancer","10":"tag-breathwork","11":"tag-chemotherapy","12":"tag-dense-breasts","13":"tag-divorce","14":"tag-double-mastectomy","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-lisa-larkin","20":"tag-lymph-node","21":"tag-mammography","22":"tag-meditation","23":"tag-mount-kilimanjaro","24":"tag-radiation","25":"tag-womens-health-in-focus-a-global-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}