Breast Cancer : If I have had breast cancer, what imaging tests do you recommend for surveillance after my treatment is completed?

If I have had breast cancer, what imaging tests do you recommend for surveillance after my treatment is completed?

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Breast Cancer Surveillance, High Risk Surveillance, Breast Cancer Recurrence, Breast Cancer Screening, Breast Cancer Imaging, Cancer Screening, Cancer Surveillance, Mammogram, Breast Cancer Recurrence Detection

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StaceyVitielloMD (Physician - Radiology (Verified) ) - 06 / 06 / 2012

Certainly an annual mammogram at the very least. Some doctors will send you for mammograms of the treated breast every six months for a few years, which is also fine. At our practice, we also recommend that breast cancer survivors have annual screening MRI examinations for high-risk surveillance. Who is at higher risk than someone whose body has already created a breast cancer? If your insurance company denies coverage, fight with them! It amazes me that insurers will cover an MRI for a breast cancer survivor’s daughter or mother or sister, but not for the survivor herself. Whatever happened to “common-sense-based” medicine?

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