I pray that your DIL does well with treatments and that she will be blessed with many healthy years to come. Thank goodness the cancer was caught.
Mammograms are not 100% reliable. On the other hand, MRIs are known to give many false positives - that’s what doctors told me. In my case, the MRI caught two other spots of cancer that the mammogram never detected. But, in many other cases, the “spots” on the MRI turn out to be benign.
So, mammograms miss spots sometimes, and MRIs give many false positives. What to do? Unfortunately, insurance won’t cover an MRI every year unless the woman has tested positive for one of the BRCA genes. So, IMHO, because there are no guarantees with any test, each woman should do what she thinks is best.
Btw, after finding “the lump” myself, I went for my first mammogram. It had to be taken 6-7 times in order to get it on the picture. Haha - BRUTAL. Fortunately, I didn’t have the problems that you had - probably because I found a place that uses a newer, digital “soft-touch” mammogram with immediate results. That might be one you’d want to try.
Blessings to you!
First thing they do after a mammo finds a lump is a MRI, it was how they found that the milk ducts, lobule and nipple were also involved. The Biopsy just proved what stage. When the surgeon did the Mastectomy he checked the lymph nodes and found only 1, but took 3 to be on the safe side.
That is what the ‘new comfort machine’ is. The pain comes from being large breasted and Fibro and Fibromyalgia. Heck even a BP cuff is PAINFUL if pumped up to high. FMS is a very misunderstood auto immune. And the treatments only make it worse as they are habit forming mind drugs, or Lyrica which has a 50% failure rate due to the horrendous side effects. Vallium 10 mg twice daily and keeping my Thyroid on the right dose has done wonders for the muscle and joint pain with out being addictive at that level, and does not have mental issues.