This really spoke to me, L.L. As someone who was diagnosed with early onset breast cancer nine years ago, every subsequent mammogram has been the equivalent of mental and emotional torture. I have small tits and "very dense" breast tissue. In fact, the breast where I had my lumpectory feels like it's mostly scar tissue. Anyway, I am routinely called back for the friggin' ultrasound which has me thinking, like you, WHY DON'T THEY JUST DO THIS UP FRONT? And why can't they come up with a better way to "see through" the tissue. I wrote about one such session where I fell apart an was told I have PTSD from having breast cancer. Fuckin' A, I do. Thank you for writing this.