a search for "alternatives to mammograms" shows lots of interesting info on thermograph, MRI, blood test.... Has anyone tried any of these? MRIs are quite expensive, and my guess is my wonderful American health insurer would not pay for it since routine mammograms are covered and cheaper. I know of no blood test that would check for breast cancer per se. Thermograms are possible but not routinely available--I would have to travel about 8 hrs round trip to the nearest center I have identified. I keep thinking that ultrasounds sound promising, but I haven't found anyone who has had one as a breast cancer screening. Of course, if you advertised ultrasounds for breast cancer screening and then someone who had received one subsequently was diagnosed with breast cancer, in America, you would promptly be sued for negligence or possibly malpractice because ultrasounds have not been formally sanctioned as a breast cancer screening technique by the FDA or whatever government agency sanctions such things. Is there anybody out there who routinely does one of these alternatives? Am I just really crazy here? (No, wait, don't answer that part.) P.D. Gordon RN, BS, BSN, IBCLC DE Div of Public Health-Communicable Disease *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]