Sep 24, 2026 · 33 min · 10 segments
Mammograms can bring up a lot of questions, and sometimes a lot of anxiety. In this conversation, Dr. Yazdani, a diagnostic radiologist on the medical staff of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital…
Rana YazdaniGuest
Helen BowlesHostGracieHostSo first of all, take our listeners behind the scenes.
What is something that women probably don't realize about what happens when they get a mammogram?
So when you get a mammogram, the process is much like going to a doctor's appointment.
And just depending on how the workflow is of where you go, at some point, you may have to change into a robe because your breasts will need to be out of clothing and out of a bra in order to get through the mammogram.
So You'll be sitting in a waiting room, whether it's in the clothes that you showed up in or after you change in a dressing room.
And then your name will get called back by one of the mammographer technologists.
Then you'll get taken back to a room with the technologists in a private room where they'll go through a series of questions with you.
And usually the questionnaire has questions on it that will screen for breast cancer risk.
So they may ask you questions like when you first started, you had your first menstrual period or how many kids you had, or if you're on hormone replacement therapy, questions like that.
And then after they look at all of those questions, a risk score is typically given, risk of breast cancer score is given for each patient.
It's typically two images of the right breast and two images of the left breast in different formats of compression.
And so most of the technologists, if not all of them in most imaging centers, are female.
And, you know, they'll kind of guide you through the whole steps, whether you've never had one before, you're very nervous.
Yeah, I feel like the people I've always worked with have always been super informative and helpful and comforting.
One of the things that I didn't expect when I went through this is I have some freckles on my skin and they'll mark them too.
So that, that way they can clearly differentiate between things that they know are on the outside and things that show up on the imaging inside, which I thought was, was fascinating and just helps lend clarity.
So first of all, take our listeners behind the scenes.
What is something that women probably don't realize about what happens when they get a mammogram?
So when you get a mammogram, the process is much like going to a doctor's appointment.
And just depending on how the workflow is of where you go, at some point, you may have to change into a robe because your breasts will need to be out of clothing and out of a bra in order to get through the mammogram.
So You'll be sitting in a waiting room, whether it's in the clothes that you showed up in or after you change in a dressing room.
And then your name will get called back by one of the mammographer technologists.
Then you'll get taken back to a room with the technologists in a private room where they'll go through a series of questions with you.
And usually the questionnaire has questions on it that will screen for breast cancer risk.
So they may ask you questions like when you first started, you had your first menstrual period or how many kids you had, or if you're on hormone replacement therapy, questions like that.
And then after they look at all of those questions, a risk score is typically given, risk of breast cancer score is given for each patient.
It's typically two images of the right breast and two images of the left breast in different formats of compression.
And so most of the technologists, if not all of them in most imaging centers, are female.
And, you know, they'll kind of guide you through the whole steps, whether you've never had one before, you're very nervous.
Yeah, I feel like the people I've always worked with have always been super informative and helpful and comforting.
One of the things that I didn't expect when I went through this is I have some freckles on my skin and they'll mark them too.
So that, that way they can clearly differentiate between things that they know are on the outside and things that show up on the imaging inside, which I thought was, was fascinating and just helps lend clarity.
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