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What Follow up required after mastectomy
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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Dr. Palaniappan Ramanathan
Surgical Oncologist
15 yrs exp
Bangalore
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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