stage 1 what test do you have

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sheri47
sheri47 Member Posts: 115
edited June 2014 in Stage I Breast Cancer

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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  • changes
    changes Member Posts: 622
    edited March 2012

    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.

  • Susie123
    Susie123 Member Posts: 804
    edited March 2012

    Just blood work for me too.

  • mdg
    mdg Member Posts: 3,571
    edited March 2012

    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.

  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited March 2012

    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.

  • warrrior3
    warrrior3 Member Posts: 51
    edited March 2012

    Diagnostic mammo on BC side every 6 months healthy breast once a year.

  • skl679
    skl679 Member Posts: 42
    edited March 2012

    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). 

  • bluepearl
    bluepearl Member Posts: 961
    edited May 2012

    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!!!

  • dogsandjogs
    dogsandjogs Member Posts: 1,907
    edited May 2012

    Mammograms every year and blood work every 6 months.

  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited May 2012

    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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