DCIS and bone scans?

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Wolfi
Wolfi Member Posts: 425
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I have had quite a bit of pain (chest, neck, arm and back) for the last few weeks and (of course) am worried that it is a reoccurance.

I told my oncologist about it and he said that they don't usually order bone scans for people diagnosed with DCIS.

I'm just wondering if anyone else with DCIS has had a bone scan done and if it was helpful. I want to do what I can to detect anything else early on but there don't seem to be any other tests that they do unless I find a lump or something. I just don't feel right and my worrying is spreading to my husband - he is always there to take care of me and doesn't like to see me in any pain.

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  • j2twin
    j2twin Member Posts: 28
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    I had a bone scan the same
    I had a bone scan the same day I had a mamogram. That mamo found DCIS. Onc did ask me if I had had one. He was going to schedule one said I would need one every two years.
  • Megan M
    Megan M Member Posts: 3,000
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    I assumed if you were having
    I assumed if you were having pain that your onco would order a bone scan no matter what type of bc you had, but, I don't know Wolfi. Did he say more as to why he doesn't? Hoping your pain gets better.

    Hugs, Megan
  • teresa41
    teresa41 Member Posts: 471
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    Megan M said:

    I assumed if you were having
    I assumed if you were having pain that your onco would order a bone scan no matter what type of bc you had, but, I don't know Wolfi. Did he say more as to why he doesn't? Hoping your pain gets better.

    Hugs, Megan

    i had one
    i was diagnosed in april with dcis on my left side i had a mastectomy in may. in august i started having a lot of pain in my hip i spoke to my oncoligist and he ordered a bone scan and a chest x ray right away.


    wishing you the best,

    teresa
  • Wolfi
    Wolfi Member Posts: 425
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    Megan M said:

    I assumed if you were having
    I assumed if you were having pain that your onco would order a bone scan no matter what type of bc you had, but, I don't know Wolfi. Did he say more as to why he doesn't? Hoping your pain gets better.

    Hugs, Megan

    He said that he doesn't
    He said that he doesn't order one for DCIS unless there is a good reason (I guess I wasn't in enough pain that day for him to think it was a good reason). He did send me for an ultrasound on my arm to rule out a blood clot causing my arm pain.

    I think I'm going to have to push for some better answers - this pain is really annoying and the whole process is getting old.

    Thanks everyone for your responses.

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