Doctor talks about how the COVID-19 booster can affect mammograms

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Bon Secours St. Francis Oncologist Stephen Dyar talks about how the COVID-19 vaccine affects mammograms. (Watch full story above) He said sometimes the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna shots, can cause temporary swelling of the lymph nodes under the arms of the injection. Dyar said it’s normal and nothing to worry about, but it can complicate the interpretation of mammograms. So, he advises women whose mammograms are coming up in four to six weeks to postpone the booster, get their mammogram and then get the vaccine booster shot after the mammogram. Dyar said oncologists are worried that many women are behind on their routine mammograms because so many had to be postponed in the early months of the pandemic shutdown.

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Bon Secours St. Francis Oncologist Stephen Dyar talks about how the COVID-19 vaccine affects mammograms.

(Watch full story above)

He said sometimes the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna shots, can cause temporary swelling of the lymph nodes under the arms of the injection.

Dyar said it’s normal and nothing to worry about, but it can complicate the interpretation of mammograms.

So, he advises women whose mammograms are coming up in four to six weeks to postpone the booster, get their mammogram and then get the vaccine booster shot after the mammogram.

Dyar said oncologists are worried that many women are behind on their routine mammograms because so many had to be postponed in the early months of the pandemic shutdown.

Doctor talks about how the COVID-19 booster can affect mammograms

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