An MRI after mammogram saved my life!

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Kendrafly
Kendrafly Member Posts: 1
edited September 2020 in Waiting for Test Results

I see a lot of articles about MRI. I have to share my story. In May 2017, at the age of 40, I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my right breast after having a mammogram. Thankfully, my Breast Surgeon ordered an MRI of BOTH breasts before her first appointment with me and the MRI discovered breast cancer also in my left breast that the mammogram did not see. The MRI ordered by my surgeon saved my life.

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  • Ladyc2020
    Ladyc2020 Member Posts: 197
    edited September 2020

    Technology is amazing! Great to hear this worked for you. 💕 My mammo didn’t pick up anything at all... so yeah... I’m a fan of ultrasounds and MRIs now.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2020

    MRI is very important for women with dense breasts. With dense breasts, we should have MRI done even if nothing is found on routine mammo.

    I will add...my Mets would not have been found without the breast MRI I had at diagnosis and I would have been treated as early stage at the start, which might have led to further progression down the line.

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  • Lilir
    Lilir Member Posts: 58
    edited September 2020

    OMG!!! So glad u posted this. I was just diagnosed with breast CA on right thanks to MRI. Mammogram did not see it. Ultrasound thought it was a cyst. They also found a mass in my left breast. Biopsy Wednesday. No results yet. Interned says only 2% of patients develop bilateral breast CA. Any data you have ran into? I am 49

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  • wallycat
    wallycat Member Posts: 3,227
    edited September 2020

    I had mammograms for nearly a decade and never flagged for anything. A gut feel and a 3-night-sequence of dreams convinced me to push getting better diagnostics. Ultrasound showed nothing. MRI picked it up right away. My breast surgeon said I saved my life. He'd never even consider I had cancer by looking at the mammos and ultrasounds...and I had no lump. None. Lobular cancer is sneaky that way. I was just a month shy of turning 50.

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  • Mountainlover
    Mountainlover Member Posts: 89
    edited September 2020

    A routine mammogram caught a mass in my left breast. BS requested MRI, turned out I had 4 millimetric masses. Without the MRI they would have done a lumpectomy , which probably wouldn't have removed all the cancer, although it was all in the same area. I also had dense breast.

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