Advanced Mammogram Screenings ?? - Page 3

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@ThinkingOutLoud wrote:
I wonder how this new AI method compares to thermography that's been around for some time and finds things sooner than mamms have.

@ThinkingOutLoud

Our insurance company believes that mammography is the better method of the two and not all insurance companies pay for the advanced mammogram upfront and deny payment at all if that is your first choice but if there are any abnormalities noted on first regular mammogram, then you are approved for advanced mammogram (that's how my insurance company works). We are controlled by the government who set the rules for us, unfortunately. Ultrasound is the most effective to ascertain if the lesion is a fluid-filled cyst or actually breast cancer but I hope I never have to have one of those again. I felt like ... I don't know what I felt like. It was not the most pleasant experience I ever had of medical diagnostics, to say the least.

Nonametoday · ‎03-09-2010

@cindyNC wrote:
@Nonametoday I'm so sorry you have had so many family members that were not well.

@cindyNC Thank you. Subsequently, my husband has been found to have an inoperable cancer and our son deceased. One daughter-in-law is doing well with breast cancer but it is at advanced stage. Several of her family members had cancer prior to hers being found. The one with ovarian cancer is doing well but it has affected her thyroid and she has had removal of that. It's always something. DH is not doing well. But HE who controls the universe is good all the time and I have so many precious friends and neighbors who have seen us through some of the roughest times anyone could imagine.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

I just got an opinion form a radiologist, he said it is a second pair of eyes, and a definite plus, so I will most likely pay the 40, I would imagine soon insurance will cover it.