Mammogram before radiation?

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Ann360
Ann360 Member Posts: 15
edited June 2014 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

I finished my 4th and last C+T chemo infusion today and found that my radiologist wants to do a mammogram prior to starting radiation on 2/06.  Is this a normal step, or something extra, and if it's extra is it because she suspects a problem has arisen since that 1.5 cm TN lesion was removed in late September?  In spite of the surgery and chemo?  

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  • Luah
    Luah Member Posts: 1,541
    edited January 2013

    Ann, I haven't heard of that myself, but maybe someone else will be along shortly. Why not ask your RO? (In the absence of information, we tend to think the worst, don't we?) 

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  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 25,634
    edited January 2013

    Ann........They do  their own mammogram to make sure where the radiation area will be...

    I had one myself.....

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  • BilateralBeauties
    BilateralBeauties Member Posts: 149
    edited January 2013

    I had a CT scan before radiation. It led to another biopsy that thankfully was b9 after two positives. They are looking for all the information they can get to map the radiation site. If they see anything else worrisome, they will follow up as they did in my case.

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