I agree @otas. I was diagnosed with ILC last August. I'm coming up to my one year mammogram but my dr is not considering a breast MRI, which is done as a matter of course at MD Anderson and at Mayo. I'm to have a mammogram and ultrasound. Ultrasound didn't even pick up my architectural distortion. Lobular cells lack the protein that makes ductal cells clump (and be felt) I found myself explaining this to a radiation oncologist last week. I wonder if for years they have approached lobular the same way they treat ductal. If they don't catch lobular early, I imagine you end up with stage 2 or 3. (and I could be wrong about this.) It's frustrating. We can't all go to MD Anderson or Mayo for appropriate treatment. I'm beginning to think that physicians simply don't have time to stay up on this.