[AlaskaAngel]

I have at least 3 reasons for going along with the general consensus here about scans.

First, for far too long the HER2s were not separated out and treatment basically was lumped in with whatever testing schedule was used for the wider range of all bc, and I think to some degree it is taking a while for oncs to wake up and get with more frequent imaging for HER2's. Second, the problem with not having more frequent imaging is that if a recurrence is again strongly HER2 positive, it is a faster-growing bugger. Third, from what I've seen here, late recurrences frequently are brain mets (and these do include people who were originally diagnosed at stage 1). If those aren't addressed when they are small they are much harder to deal with.

Using the "Search" option at the top of the screen, enter any distinctive words about whatever it is you don't understand, and lots of past posts will come up that you can read and try to interpret. Lots are very technical, but follow the discussions about each post to see what others had to say too.

A.A.

P.S. I should say, there are those here who also were diagnosed originally as Stage 0 who recurred as well.