stage 1 what test do you have
just wondering what test scans do you have after treatment
my onco just does blood work and yearly mammos im stage 2 mass was 2 cm er pr pos and her 2 neg
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I'm having mammograms twice a year, until I hit the 2.5 year point - if all is well, then I go down to once a year. Other than that, the oncologist only does scans if I am having some unexplained symptom.
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Just blood work for me too.
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NOTHING. I was stage one and my med onc does not even do blood work. I get a physical exam every 3 months. It is really hard for me to accept this. I feel like they should be doing something. I had BMX so no mammograms for me. I am being seen at an NCI too. Stage 1 patients are pretty much "dismissed". That's how I feel when I go to see my med onc.....I am the "easy" patient because I was stage 1. I am glad I was stage 1 but the lack of follow up gives me no reassurance.
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I am stage II, had lumpectomy, chemo, and rads and I only have a mammogram every six months. I see my MO once every six months and he does blood work then. I wish they did more in the way of scans. I would find it reassuring no matter what the ASCO guidelines are.
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Diagnostic mammo on BC side every 6 months healthy breast once a year.
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I see one or the other onco (RO or MO) every 3 months and my BS every 6 months. I think 2nd year it will be every 4 months for onco and 3rd year will move to 6 months, then annually. Bloodwork every 3 months for the first year (I have had some anemia issues). Alternating each 6 months - diagnostic mammogram on BC side and MRI (my cancer was not seen on mammogram).
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I have annual mammograms for the rest of my life on remaining breast. Blood work, as in tumor markers, well...on the John Hopkins breast cancer center they say they don't do them on women with breast cancer stages 1 to 3 because they are so unreliable and are anxiety-provoking and if breast cancer has metastisized, causing symptoms, the treatment will be the same. There's a 5% chance (according to them) that stage 1 will turn into stage 4 which means that 95% will do well. The deciding factor I have read is the mitotic count. One means it is unlikely that the 5% will even kick in while a higher count there is more risk. Ki67 too. Less than 10%..ok. New information comes out all the time so that a person's individual cancer will require individual treatments so there's a vast array of genetic diversity among cancer cells. So, generally speaking, let's focus on 95% doing well!!!
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Mammograms every year and blood work every 6 months.
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Mammograms and blood work every 6 months. Yearly bone density test. Will continue with this till the 5 year mardk Not sure what happens afte that.
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