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What Follow up required after mastectomy

2020-01-14 16:41:25
My mother has gone through mastectomy I attached her biopsy report.right now hormone therapy is going on.after three month what kind of tests required in follow up
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It's an early stage cancer. She will require every 3 monthly examination by the Oncologist team. She will require serum alkaline phosphate test. It depends on what hormonal tablet prescribed. Yearly once  mammogram of the other breast. Imaging of abdomen and pelvis is ±.
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Consult your oncologist for follow up chart

Answered2020-01-15 12:23:14

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