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No symptoms. 62 yr female,shadow chest xray breast region. no fam hist of breast cancer. will have mri, but anxious about possible explanations other than breast cancer? smoker, has/had fibrocystic breasts.

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Not enough info: Did they do a lateral ? I would suspect they would follow up with a chest CT and a mammogram if CT negative. What was the official radiologist reading

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Answered 5/22/2018

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A member asked:

No symptoms. 62 yr female,shadow chest xray breast region. no fam hist of breast cancer. will have mri, but anxious about possible explanations other than breast cancer? smoker, has/had fibrocystic breasts.

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Herman Hammerstead answered

Dr Chuu agreed

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