Scanxiety - does it ever REALLY go away?
Does Scanxiety ever really disappear? I think not. It is 4 years in Nov since my ILC tumours were found, by accident, by my GP - as the rural BreastScreen Bus screens totally missed it ..... TWIC...
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Hi @arpie
Short answer “ no”.
Long answer:
One of the later podcasts in the Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast series on the announcement above “ What you don’t know until you do” was about fear of recurrence and I found it excellent.
Like you my cancer was lobular , it was not picked up on the breast screen mammogram and had grown to be 5.5 cm before I felt a lump.
When my breast cancer surgeon said “ lobular cancer is often not picked up in a mammogram” I said “ I wish someone had told me that”.
I also had a petscan as part of my cancer staging which picked up a very tiny unrelated thyroid cancer ( thyroid since removed and all good) so I have the added tiny voice in my head “ well if there were two cancers don’t things come in threes”?
The podcast had some good coping strategies for the fear of recurrence / scanxiety issues.
Good luck with your results my wishes are with you.
Short answer “ no”.
Long answer:
One of the later podcasts in the Dr Charlotte Tottman podcast series on the announcement above “ What you don’t know until you do” was about fear of recurrence and I found it excellent.
Like you my cancer was lobular , it was not picked up on the breast screen mammogram and had grown to be 5.5 cm before I felt a lump.
When my breast cancer surgeon said “ lobular cancer is often not picked up in a mammogram” I said “ I wish someone had told me that”.
I also had a petscan as part of my cancer staging which picked up a very tiny unrelated thyroid cancer ( thyroid since removed and all good) so I have the added tiny voice in my head “ well if there were two cancers don’t things come in threes”?
The podcast had some good coping strategies for the fear of recurrence / scanxiety issues.
Good luck with your results my wishes are with you.