[Jackie07]

30 hours before my 'routine' annual mammogram in 2003, I (Hubby) felt something close to the center of my chest. Surgery, chemo and radiation raised my 5-year survival rate to 92% (supposedly.) 4 years later, after losing 3 jobs in three years, we found out (felt very sick -> [one month] early mammogram -> ultrasound)that the so-called scar tissue on my mammograms had been recurrence all along.

I don't think it was mammogram's fault. I think the doctors and technicians need more education about Her-2 breast cancer. Any doubt (in my case, suspected 'scar tissue' and several 'retakes' every time I was in the mammography room) should have alarmed them to refer me to get an ultrasound. (They never had informed me about the existence of the so-called 'scar tissue'.) Even when it was more than 2 cm, they still thought it was 'scar tissue' (The mammo technician declared after the test - he's not supposed to do that, but it gave me the idea what had been happening all four years.) Fortunately this time the surgeon was the one who had ordered it (after I had made an appointment with her) and she finally caught it - realizing she did not have a 'clean' margin. [She's quite traumatized by it - visibly and audibly distraught when she saw me about the confirmed recurrence.]