Body and bone scans
hi, i'm 46 and was diagnosed with in-situ and invasive lobular cancer in my right breast in november (multi-centric and multi-focal, grade 3, ki67 23%, er/pr+ / her2-). i've had neo-adjuvant chemo, a ...
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The doctors all have differing opinions don't they?
I had CT and Bone scan after diagnosis. But that was because we knew it was already in the nodes and was suspicious for being elsewhere. Thankfully it wasn't.
I had MRI after that to chase the elusive primary breast tumour as I wanted the Lumpectomy. If I had chosen Mastectomy they wouldn't have bothered I don't think.
My 12month scan was MG, US and MRI at my request. Given the issue the first time around I didn't trust the other two on there own.
After 10 wks on Tamoxifen version 1 I was aching through lower back and both hips chronically and also had severe mental fog. Of course I thought it had spread and ran off to the doctor. I requested another CT. My gp is pretty iffy about handing out referrals for these. She did give it to me with a warning to think carefully about scanning myself into more problems.
I let the CT ride, but did a bone scan (less radiation) and a brain MRI to alleviate some of my concerns. So the MRI picked up something odd in my head (can't remember what it was, vascular blush I think) they did give it a name but the problem is as soon as you have had cancer you get written on your reports basically "we think it is such and such but given the history cannot rule out the nasties". More worry.
So my GP gave me the "I told you so" look and said, many people have (whatever it was in my head, i'll have to go look it up), they rarely present an issue and most people would never know about it unless they were scanning for something else. That had to be checked again in three months so there was another three months worrying about something else unnecessarily.
My two years is coming up in November so that will be another MMG,US and MRI (once I save up for it LOL) I am just wondering if I need the other two or just rely on the MRI?????
Maybe request the CT if you haven't had one before just so you can stop worrying and get on with things.
All the best @Lvlw
xoxoxo
I had CT and Bone scan after diagnosis. But that was because we knew it was already in the nodes and was suspicious for being elsewhere. Thankfully it wasn't.
I had MRI after that to chase the elusive primary breast tumour as I wanted the Lumpectomy. If I had chosen Mastectomy they wouldn't have bothered I don't think.
My 12month scan was MG, US and MRI at my request. Given the issue the first time around I didn't trust the other two on there own.
After 10 wks on Tamoxifen version 1 I was aching through lower back and both hips chronically and also had severe mental fog. Of course I thought it had spread and ran off to the doctor. I requested another CT. My gp is pretty iffy about handing out referrals for these. She did give it to me with a warning to think carefully about scanning myself into more problems.
I let the CT ride, but did a bone scan (less radiation) and a brain MRI to alleviate some of my concerns. So the MRI picked up something odd in my head (can't remember what it was, vascular blush I think) they did give it a name but the problem is as soon as you have had cancer you get written on your reports basically "we think it is such and such but given the history cannot rule out the nasties". More worry.
So my GP gave me the "I told you so" look and said, many people have (whatever it was in my head, i'll have to go look it up), they rarely present an issue and most people would never know about it unless they were scanning for something else. That had to be checked again in three months so there was another three months worrying about something else unnecessarily.
My two years is coming up in November so that will be another MMG,US and MRI (once I save up for it LOL) I am just wondering if I need the other two or just rely on the MRI?????
Maybe request the CT if you haven't had one before just so you can stop worrying and get on with things.
All the best @Lvlw
xoxoxo