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@411shirley

Thank you so much for your response. The reason I've been extra concerned is because I did have surgery, chemotherapy (with dates missed due to unacceptable blood counts), 11 days in the hospital because blood counts were so low, a transfusion, 33 rounds of radiation (all from Oct. 2020 - June 2021), and all scans since then. I still see the oncologist every 3 months. Until this last round of blood testing my tumor markers were in the high range and kept getting higher. Now that I've stopped Verzenio (I still take Anastrozole), the tumor markers are finally in the normal range. At surgery I had 4 lymph nodes removed, one showing macro metastasis. Since the cancer had already moved out of just the breast tissue and was in the nodes, it increases the chance it will metastasize somewhere else since it already escaped into my lymph/blood systems. If I would have known they wouldn't really be able to perform a mammogram I guess I might have decided upon a full mastectomy of that breast and then I wouldn't have to worry about unscannable breast tissue. So, for the right breast, I can only get the MRI versions once per year.

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I mistakenly thought the reason you were waiting was because of schedules like the rest of the world. This feels even more awful to me. If the mammogram was unsuccessful, my thought would be “why wait?”. You still need some kind of current image, right?
Is this 4 month wait time because the doctor doesn’t think there is a need for a current scan, or because insurance denied it?