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caya · 01-24-2011, 08:53 PM

Many of you know my story - I had a "clean" mammogram and breast ultrasound in July 2006 - 3 months later, Oct. 2006, I had a breast reduction, my plastic surgeon found my 1.7 cm. tumour - I have very dense breasts, apparently this was noted on previous mammos, unbeknownst to me.
I have a breast MRI every January on my remaining breast and a digtial mammo every June. As far as I am concerned, mammos are pretty useless for premenopausal, dense breasted women. The breast MRI is the ONLY way to go, IMHO - go straight to the breast MRI, and bypass the mammo. I know there can be false positives, but better than a false negative.
All the docs say that breast reduction saved my life...

all the best
caya

01-24-2011, 08:53 PM	#11
caya Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Thornhill, Ontario Canada Posts: 2,320	Re: Big bang theory of cancer development Many of you know my story - I had a "clean" mammogram and breast ultrasound in July 2006 - 3 months later, Oct. 2006, I had a breast reduction, my plastic surgeon found my 1.7 cm. tumour - I have very dense breasts, apparently this was noted on previous mammos, unbeknownst to me. I have a breast MRI every January on my remaining breast and a digtial mammo every June. As far as I am concerned, mammos are pretty useless for premenopausal, dense breasted women. The breast MRI is the ONLY way to go, IMHO - go straight to the breast MRI, and bypass the mammo. I know there can be false positives, but better than a false negative. All the docs say that breast reduction saved my life... all the best caya __________________ ER90%+/PR 50%+/HER 2+ 1.7 cm and 1.0 cm. Stage 1, grade 2, Node Negative (16 nodes tested) MRM Dec.18/06 3 x FEC, 3 x Taxotere Herceptin - every 3 weeks for a year, finished May 8/08 Tamoxifen - 2 1/2 years Femara - Jan. 1, 2010 - July 18, 2012 BRCA1/BRCA2 Negative Dignosed 10/16/06, age 48 , premenopausal Mild lymphedema diagnosed June 2009 - breast surgeon and lymph. therapist think it's completely reversible - hope so. Reclast infusion January 2012 Oopherectomy October 2013 15 Years NED!!