Dr. Cappello's Blog Post: Going Nuclear After My Advanced Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis: How My Physicians' Filibuster Led to Legislation
Sitting on our couch with great anticipation, my husband and I listened intently to my breast surgeon as she reviewed the pathology report from my recent breast cancer diagnosis. It was less than a month, after I persisted as…
Read More »Dr. Cappello's Blog Post: The Unmasking of Breast Cancer in Dense Breasts: The Elephant in the Examining Room
Breast cancer screening by mammography reduces mortality from breast cancer. Mammography has been a breast surveillance procedure for four decades with the publication of the first randomized controlled trial, Health…
Read More »Dr. Cappello's Blog Post: Macaroni, Gravy and Breast Cancer: A Meaningful Collision in Honor of my Italian Heritage
A symbolic collision of my birthplace, my Italian heritage, and my advanced-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2004 occurred more than 60 years after my birth. I was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the second of four children…
Read More »CONNECTICUT's Landmark Breast Density Legislation
Dr. Nancy Cappello's advanced stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2004 after a decade of 'normal' mammograms, and her shocking revelation of the scientific research for decades of the risks and screening challenges of dense…
Read More »DOCS praise Connecticut Legislation for finding cancers that mammography miss
After an ultrasound screening in 2004, Woodbury resident Nancy Cappello was diagnosed with stage 3c breast cancer — just two months after a mammogram had given her a clean bill of health. When she asked how that could…
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