Screening Options

[Well1501]

Increasingly on DCIS Facebook posts, I see a lot of concern about mammography and its use as a routine screening tool for early detection. Some people are now using alternatives for routine screening. What are your thoughts? Have you tried thermography or automated breast ultrasonography?

[RLN-overcomer]

Greetings: Sister /warrior My doctor/oncologist agrees to give me sonograms since my diagnosis in 2007. I would rather have thermograms, , but my insurance doesn't pay for this testing, that is more accurate, and a lot less expensive than mammograms. The hospitals and medical facilities have to recoup the cost they have payed for these mammogram machines, and also want to make additional money/profit once the machines are paid off. If we all had thermograms the hospitals, and medical facilities would lose a lot of money/profit. XoXoXoXo

[urthmothr]

My DCIS would not have been discovered if I didn't have a discharge from my nipple. It didn't show up on my mammogram, and because my breast tissue is so dense, they couldn't find it with an ultrasound until after it was pinpointed by a MRI. I want to ask my surgeon about these other tests, to be able to know if it turns up in my other breast.