There’s one circumstance in which women should get examined for breast cancer immediately - regardless if they just got a shot, Mullen said. If it’s not possible, and you can wait several weeks (for a mammogram), that’s OK, too,” she said. “If it’s possible to do a mammogram before the Covid vaccine series, or before the booster, then that’s great. She said results are typically available within a few days, and women can get vaccinated afterward - reducing the chances of vaccine-induced swollen lymph nodes showing up on a mammogram.īut if a woman recently got vaccinated and has swollen lymph nodes, she may want to wait a few weeks before getting a mammogram, Mullen said. If you’re due for a mammogram soon, Mullen suggests getting it. And if your regularly scheduled mammogram is several weeks away, any vaccine-induced swollen lymph nodes probably wouldn’t be an issue, Mullen said. She said it’s important to get vaccine doses on schedule. Not all doctors will agree, and not all patients will have the same circumstances, Mullen said. Women eligible for an additional dose of vaccine who also have a mammogram planned for the near future should check with their healthcare provider, said Marks, the FDA vaccine official. So when should women coordinate vaccines and mammograms? So often we’ll ask those women to come in,” possibly for an ultrasound to investigate further, Mullen said. “And you know it’s probably because of the flu vaccine, but I can’t be 100% sure. “I call back some people from screening, who I know they had a flu vaccine, and their lymph nodes are a little big.” “I wish we could move Breast Cancer Awareness Month from October to some other month, like May or June, because every year it has been flu vaccine season as well,” Mullen told CNN on Thursday. She often sees enlarged lymph nodes from the flu vaccine show up on mammograms in October. It’s not just Covid-19 vaccines - the flu shot, the shingles vaccine and the diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (D-TaP) shot can also temporarily change the appearance of lymph nodes, Mullen said. “So these enlarged lymph nodes are evidence that the vaccine is doing exactly what our bodies need it to do.” “It incites an immune response by the body that is necessary to fight off the Covid-19 virus, should it enter a person’s body,” Lehman said.
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