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Detecting cancer in women with dense breasts: MRI?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 5 7:54am | Replies (168)Comment receiving replies
Hi @jaynep I had dense breast and had my mammogram in Dallas and they said all looks good and my physical wear my dr examined my breast.
Within a year after moving back to Utah, my nipple started turning inwards.
I decided to call Huntsman Cancer Institute and see if that was normal. They suggested I do a mammogram. A dr did an exam on me before going in and said, “plan on being here for a couple of hours as you have some kind of cancer. I can feel it in your breast and your lymph node and I want to have a breast MRI done right after.”
It didn’t show my cancer and one of them was over 3” long.
They went ahead and did the MRI and then the biopsy. Called me 2 days later on a Saturday, to tell me it was cancer. Turned out I had 2 different kinds and Stage III.
The law in Utah is now that they have to offer you an MRI if you have dense breast. The mammogram is great at showing small tumors but not large ones and especially with dense breast.
I hope by now you have gotten your MRI!
Best wishes.
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I’m so sorry for your result, please know my heart and prayers are with you for recovery!
I was staged IIB after the pathology from my mastectomy came back. The biopsies missed the invasive cancer, it did show the other ductal in situ/ all in all I wanted to share, the tumors were over 14 CM over 3/4 of my breast but challenging to diagnose as the dense breast tissue is over 73% of my breasts. I went in for an early 3-D mammogram 6 mo after my yearly as my breast just felt thicker. Lucky I did. My continuing follow up includes 3-D mammo with dye contrast.
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It will be in August when I have my six month follow-up appt with the surgeon’s office. I asked about it at my February appt and didn’t hear anything back. I saw my surgeon’s nurse practitioner and she agreed to me having a MRI but then nothing was scheduled. I called twice and luckily I spoke to a young lady with whom I had spoken to frequently l…I had two lumpectomies and a mastectomy within two months and she gave me her direct number then. I know we all dread these follow-ups but I think I’ll feel better after the MRI. The surgeon wanted to do one initially when I was diagnosed but I had recently had a spinal fusion and was unable to lie on my stomach at that point in recovery. Thank you for your kind words and I pray you do well and feel well in your journey down this tangled road we’re all traveling. God Bless🌹