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Home > I have recently been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma with mets to approx. 3 lymph nodes. This was not seen on mammogram or ultrasound. It is a large 5 cm. tumor. How does something this large go undetected except by MRI?

I have recently been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma with mets to approx. 3 lymph nodes. This was not seen on mammogram or ultrasound. It is a large 5 cm. tumor. How does something this large go undetected except by MRI?

By Gussy
Created 08/19/2017 - 10:03

I've had years of negative mammograms which I'm suspecting were false. Has anyone else experienced this?

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