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originally posted by: snowspirit
a reply to: ketsuko
There’s something that shows up from the vaccine on some women, that looks like cancer or a lump on a mammogram, so they’ve been getting false positives...
I don’t have a link, but it was on the news about a week or so ago
Found a link
www.washingtonpost.com...
COVID-19 vaccines and mammograms: 7 things to know BY Shanley Chien Could getting a COVID-19 vaccine affect the results of your mammogram or other diagnostic imaging exams? Physicians at MD Anderson are seeing an uptick in mammograms and other diagnostic imaging exams showing potential findings that can be confused with cancer in patients who’ve recently received one of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. This is due to a common side effect of the COVID-19 vaccines: swollen lymph nodes. “One hypothesis for why we’re seeing this so often in mammograms right now is because there is a large number of women being vaccinated in a short amount of time,” says Jessica Leung, M.D., professor of Diagnostic Radiology and deputy chair of Breast Imaging. Johnson & Johnson’s adenovirus-based vaccine has only begun to be distributed, and people may or may not also see a similar response from this vaccine. Nevertheless, Leung expects that patients will need to heed the same timing considerations to avoid issues with their mammograms and other diagnostic imaging tests.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
a reply to: rickymouse
There is also the reverse, what happens if the swollen lymph due to jab are masking potential breast cancer so misdiagnosis and not a 'false positive'.
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Jane