Question about regular mammograms "after" bc

mouse9587
mouse9587 Member Posts: 53
edited September 2014 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned

Hello!  I had my new "baseline" mammo in march and will be having my first "regular" mammo later this month.  My question is:  at my 6 month mammo, a "sticker" was placed over my lumpectomy scar to mark it on the picture. Do they do that for regular mammograms?  How do they see if anything is hidden in the scar tissue if it's covered?  

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  • pajim
    pajim Member Posts: 2,785
    edited September 2014

    I wouldn't think so.  I have no experience with this, but it seems to me that now they have a "marked" baseline mammo, they can compare the new ones.

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  • Annette47
    Annette47 Member Posts: 957
    edited September 2014

    I've been going every 6 months since finishing treatment, so have had 3 mammo's on the cancer side so far.    They only put a sticker on once - on the middle of the three.   Not sure why then and not the other times than maybe it's a different tech or a different radiologist going to read it?   Seemed kind of random to me.

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