The patients have swollen lymph nodes, which is a rare sign of breast cancer.
“When we see it, we worry,” said Dr. Lars Grimm of Duke Health said.
Doctors are now learning that it is caused by women who have recently received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Lymph nodes will be swollen on the side of the body where the person received the shot.
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“It’s good, no, because it means the vaccine works. Your body responds. You get the immune response,” Grimm said.
The side effect, however, is that these lumps will display a mammogram and may give a false reading for breast cancer.
Grimm says women just need to plan.
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You can do the mammogram examination before the first dose of COVID-19, or four to six weeks after the second admission.
Grimm says that the recommended schedule is the same whether you get the vaccine Moderna or Pzifer.
The last thing doctors want is for women to cancel their mammograms together, which regularly occurred in 2020.
“We are concerned that women are going to skip two years and we know that when we look regularly, we get our breast cancer at the earliest possible stage. Unfortunately, breast cancer is just as common, it is very important that women stay on it. Things of health maintenance and do not that it does not slip, ”Grimm said.
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The American Cancer Society recommends that women get the screening 45 to 54 annually. Women 55 years and older, in good health, can switch to every two years.
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