Connect
← Return to Lobular Breast Cancer: Let's share and support each other
Discussion
Lobular Breast Cancer: Let's share and support each other
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 27 11:09am | Replies (370)Comment receiving replies
Timely, Every person's body is a bit different , and I am not a medical doctor. But I would ask (1) do you have an oncologist (in contrast or in addition to a radiation oncologist)? (2) If so, get your oncologist to go to bat for you with the breast MRI-and the 3D diagnostic mammogram. I have never had a problem with Medicare or secondary insurance in getting these covered. Speak up, and if needed shout out. You have nothing to lose and perhaps a lot to gain. (I have had 4 breast MRIs, without any problem, just a bit noisier than a CAT scan. Whoever told you most women do not want to have a breast MRI may not have had the full facts in front of him/her, to be polite. ) --Nancy
Replies to "Timely, Every person's body is a bit different , and I am not a medical doctor...."
Connect
This was the Radiation Oncologist who said this. The first time he said his hospital group is advocating mammogram only as the new guidelines and implied that the other groups were wrong and in past. The 2nd time I asked him, he said that most women do not want MRI's. (His hospital group may not do them without a push on my part.)
The other group is doing mammograms + ultrasounds in the same visit. But ultrasounds do nothing and show nothing for LCI.