I asked my oncologist last chemo why this is, when in the US they seem to routinely scan a lot more women systemically... I asked specially if it’s a public health cost given we are a universal scheme. He said no and he said if he was to scan me 6 monthly for the next 10-20 years I’d surely end up with another form of cancer from that amount of radiation exposure. Which makes sense. It’s very daunting and I know for a while I will think every ache and pain is cancer. I hope I can just live my life to its fullest until otherwise... BC recurrence or not :)