[Sherryg683]

I'm assuming your wife was early stage also. That is why they are not wanting to do any other scans but mammograms. Most oncologists will feel this way. From my experience, I never had any symptoms and I was stage IV when diagnosed. My mammogram the year before was clean. I was NED 4 months later after treatment. My oncologist did pet scans on me every 3 months for the first 2 years and every 6 months now. I think we are going to move it to yearly when I make the 5 year mark. My oncologist is a rareity in the fact that he wants to do whatever he can to make me comfortable and feel safe during this. If I said "no more scans" he would go along with it. Now like I said, I am stage IV. I don't really worry about the dangers of radiation because face it, i've already got the worse here. I have read many articles that do confirm that catching metistatic cancer early and when it may be small and not spread all over has a better chance of getting rid of it. Some oncologists disagree. Now if I were your wife, early stage, no lymph nodes, non agressive cancer, I would be more than happy to move on with the next chapter of my life and not look back on this one...sherryg