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Doctors Fear COVID-19 Vaccines Are Messing With Mammograms
Physicians are concerned that COVID-19 vaccines may be planting false alarms of breast cancer in mammograms, reports the Los Angeles Times. Lymph nodes enlarged by the immune system's response to a COVID vaccine could be misinterpreted on mammograms as a sign of malignancy. Some doctors are warning patients that if they receive a callback after a mammogram, the abnormal reading is much more likely to result from a recent immunization than from cancer.
From "Doctors Fear COVID-19 Vaccines Are Messing With Mammograms" Los Angeles Times (05/12/21)