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Breast cancer-free anniversaries
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 8, 2023 | Replies (117)Comment receiving replies
Well, I had my first annual mammo and ultrasound on October 28th… on one natural breast. All was normal! As exciting as that sounds, last October I had a “normal”mammo and ultrasound on two natural breasts. However, I persisted, with a symptom, until an MRI early January 2022, that revealed two sizable tumors. SO, I have decided to celebrate anniversaries on MRI days … every six months. I will start annual MRI in February this year and push a month each year until I am equally divided 6 mos. between each screening.
That said… I’m being heavily scrutinized and I was happy for a “ normal” mammo.
If you have dense breasts I recommend MRI screening in addition to mammo. It saved my life! 🌸
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Very helpful @anjalima regarding MRI insistence given dense breasts. I'm 6 month out from diagnosis (ILC- lumpectomry- very dense breasts) and my oncologist said that scans before 1 year are not helpful! I am now going to call her back as so many of you have recommended MRI for lobular and dense breasts. I'm so glad you are being followed every 6 months!!
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I say happy anniversary however on whichever date you pick to acknowledge :-).