COVID-19 vaccine may lead to false alarm cancer screenings
Haley Hernandez, Health Reporter
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HOUSTON – MD Anderson is advising patients to schedule some cancer screenings, if you can, before or six weeks after getting their COVID-19 vaccine.
Neuroradiologist Dr. Melissa Chen said almost daily they’re seeing patients that appear to have lumps on the imaging when, in reality, it’s just swelling from the vaccine.
Cathy Phillips Chelin is a proud wife, mother, and grandmother of 8. She is full of life but worried after a recent mammogram showed a questionable lump.
“The oncologist came into the room and she said, ‘Well, the mammogram of your breasts looks perfectly fine, but I’m concerned about something that I see in your left axilla,’” Chelin recounted.