They can tell a lot from your bloodwork

They won't answer, I looked everything up on the computer. I cannot take Arimidex or any of them, it causes bone pain, I lost a lot of weight due to stomach pain, when my blood pressure went to 200/100, he took me off. He wanted me to go on Tamoxifican and I said no. My stage was invasive low 1DCIS, not in the lymph nodes, or surrounding tissues. It was Hormone receptive. They thought I might have had a reoccurrence, but it was fatty necrosis from radiation. It is true we can have reoccurences on or off the medicine. I know the medicine would of killed me. It will be 5 years in Feb 2016 free of cancer. Also the radiation did my thyroid in. Everytime I go in they do bloodwork, my platelets were high, he wanted to put me on a chemo drug, I said no it is hereditary. My platelets are fine now and so is my bloodwork, except for Anemia, and I have had that problem for years, I just take Iron. They went in to my bone marrow and it is fine . You have to speak up . I also had a lung Dexa scan, and it was fine. I will have another in a year. Hope this is helpful.

I was stage 2a idc- 16 mos out and my Drs do not do any scans unless blood work is off- so far my tumor markers have been good-

Stage I DCIS with no lymph involvement means it has not spread so no scans needed unless additional symptoms would pop up or tumor markers are elevated.

I am only 6 months out from my BMX. I asked my oncologist if I could have a PET scan and he told me NO because I didnt have any lymph nodes involved. I am not happy with his answer, but I am glad to hear of other woman not getting any scans also. Especially being a 4 year survivor. I was Stage 2 ILC.