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Hi Mary Jo,
I was stage IIA on diagnosis and had a MRI of both breasts but no scans. I did not have a CAT or PET scan till about 18 months later when I found two small lumps on my sternum that turned out to be cancerous. Then I got scans as baseline, followed CAT scans through 6 months of chemo, got PET and CAT scan at the end of treatment. These scans are expensive and lots of things may look suspicious on CAT that turn out to be scar tissue. The PET will confirm active disease, but I think most oncologists do not do them unless they strongly suspect active metastatic disease.
Donna
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