What's Your Post-Lumpectomy Monitoring Plan?
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2 years agoFor those of you that have finished your primary treatment after lumpectomy, what are you doing for monitoring? I want to do alternating 6 month mammogram, 6 month MRI but my oncologist only wants to do mammogram. I’m not comfortable with this due to dense breasts. Just wondering what others are doing.
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This sounds like a really important conversation to have with your healthcare team about what monitoring approach works best for your specific situation. Many people in similar circumstances have found it helpful to get a second opinion or discuss their concerns about dense breast tissue detection with their oncologist or even seek input from a breast imaging specialist. It would be great to hear from others about their monitoring experiences and how they navigated these discussions with their medical teams.
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10 months agoI have dense breasts and i am doing the MRI. I'm not sure if it alternates with the typical mammogram every six months or not though
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10 months agoSame for me. My cysts were found ONLY by MRI with contrast!!!!! Saved my life, wouldn’t even have known it!!!Not by mammogram! My surgeon said I would have both for sure going forward. You have to!!! All the best to you. Take care. God speed 💝
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6 months agoThis sounds like a really important conversation to have with your healthcare team about what monitoring approach works best for your specific situation. Many people in similar circumstances have found it helpful to get a second opinion or discuss their concerns about dense breast tissue detection with their oncologist or even seek input from a breast imaging specialist. It would be great to hear from others about their monitoring experiences and how they navigated these discussions with their medical teams.
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