Baseline MRI for Breast Cancer Screening?

busdriver11
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:57:47 +0000

Glad your two friends are okay. Did they have familial risk?

If your employer wouldn’t cover it should you decide to go that route, I’d check with your union. Given your higher risk due to occupational reasons, they really should.

One of them did, her mother died from an aggressive form of breast cancer in her thirties. She was getting MRI’s, but she wanted them more often than her doctor recommended, so I think she couldn’t get a referral. She was very angry because she though the cancer would have been caught when it was stage 0, instead of spreading to her lymph nodes, and regretted not being more assertive. The other friend had no familial risk, however, as a sonographer, she had seen many women with breast cancer, and when her doctor told her not to worry about those spots on her breast, she insisted on an MRI.

My employer insurance is very good, they’ve never turned me down for anything that I can think of. It’s still good old fashioned comprehensive union insurance.

Thanks for the link, politeperson, I’ll take a look!