Monitoring After Treatment for Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
Monitoring After Treatment for Breast Cancer
After completing treatment, patients with early-stage breast cancer will need to maintain regular visits to their doctors. Most early-stage, non-metastatic breast cancer patients are cured of their disease and it never comes back. Unfortunately for others, breast cancer can come back years, and even decades later.
Patients can expect to see their doctors every three to four months in the years immediately following treatment. There are a number of different doctors who may do the follow-up care. It could be a medical oncologist, or a surgeon, or a primary care physician. If a woman still has her breasts, routine breast imaging will be part of her follow up care.
It’s also important to remember that most aches and pains are just that. They’re part of normal life. Oncologists worry more about symptoms that don’t go away, such as a pain that lasts for weeks and gets worse, or a cough that doesn’t improve with time.
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After completing treatment, patients with early-stage breast cancer will need to maintain regular visits to their doctors. Most early-stage, non-metastatic breast cancer patients are cured of their disease and it never comes back. Unfortunately for others, breast cancer can come back years, and even decades later.
Patients can expect to see their doctors every three to four months in the years immediately following treatment. There are a number of different doctors who may do the follow-up care. It could be a medical oncologist, or a surgeon, or a primary care physician. If a woman still has her breasts, routine breast imaging will be part of her follow up care.
It’s also important to remember that most aches and pains are just that. They’re part of normal life. Oncologists worry more about symptoms that don’t go away, such as a pain that lasts for weeks and gets worse, or a cough that doesn’t improve with time.
Learn more about SurvivorNet's rigorous medical review process.
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