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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
How do you sequence follow up mammograms in patients undergoing breast cancer treatment?
If a patient is due for their yearly mammogram on the breast that has been diagnosed with cancer but is still undergoing active treatment (chemo or radiation) do you still send them for the mammogram? Or do you wait until all treatments including all radiation has been completed? If you wait until all treatment is complete, how long after radiation would you send them for the mammogram?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In the followup of patients treated with breast conservation therapy, continuation of yearly mammograms is standard practice, even if the cancer in question was not seen mammographically. It would be quite unusual to be undergoing RT when the yearly mammogram was due, since even with the...
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