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I just don’t see how it is possible technique wise after mastectomy to screen using mammogram which is usually the most effective method of catching cancer at its earliest stage. The nurse at my breast clinic said it would be using ultrasound. Ultrasound wouldn’t be able to detect such things as micro calcifications, which is what was detected via mammogram for me which then lead to discovering my LCIS. I guess I can push for an MRI but without reconstruction done, how is that technically possible.

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Because an MRI doesn’t work like a mammogram getting compression to do the work. It uses magnetic fields and radio waves to do the work. It can see inside your body without actually touching the tissue.
Also if there is anything suspicious they could order a CT or a PET/CT, which searches out cancer and lights it up for the doctors to see.
Does this ease your mind any?