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A member asked:
How soon after finishing radiation therapy for breast cancer should i get a follow-up mammogram?
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3-6 months later: Usually a baseline mammogram is obtained a couple of months after finishing radiation treatments. By then, most of the acute side effects of skin irritation, inflamation from radiation treatments has subsided.
Answered 2/18/2015
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4 to 6 months: The side effects of the skin need to heal and breast heals and any scarring internally improve. That takes 4 to 6 months. Even then that is the baseline mammogram and surgery and radiation changes will be seen. Then future mammograms will show these changes are improving.
Answered 6/10/2015
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Varies: I generally get my first mammogram 6 months after surgery of the affected side. This mammogram acts as a new baseline.
Answered 4/8/2013
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