Breast PAP test

Has anyone had that breast PAP test? What about thermography?

I did some reading on the breast PAP test, and I have to say "thanks, but no thanks". I think doctors have enough trouble getting their patients to comply with mammograms. There are many more pleasant ways to spend an afternoon than getting your breast slowly squeezed in a window. To be told that there's this great test that involves eight to ten probes with a needle in the inner and out quadrant of each breast would be enough to send me screaming for the hills. Don't get me wrong, I think there's a place for these tests, perhaps for truly high risk women, but not for everybody.

As for thermography, sure, if there is an abnormal result on a mammogram or another indicator, but again, not just on a whim.

Ductoscopy or Ductal lavage were already subjet of a thread in this forum:

http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=13420.msg132678#msg132678

Sorry amaral, but from my reading, we're talking about totally different procedures here. The breast PAP smear isn't the same as DL or ductoscopy, at least not from what I read. The breast PAP is more like a multi-focal fine needle biopsy, or in layman's terms, drilling for oil.

None of them sound terribly interesting to me, either in real life or play. My sweetheart sometimes indulges me with some play with acupuncture needles on my breasts, but that's about all I want to do with needles near my breasts.

When i googled the breast pap test - it came up with a link to what looked like a breast pump non invasive test to get fluid from the breast. which one are you talking about ladydoc? this one didnt have needles

Http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/7450

This is the link I went to. However, I do see that the newer HALO test is non-invasive, and probably is what you are referring to phoebe. If so, I stand corrected.

My drs office offers the HALO test but it has never been suggested that I have it done.

Well, considering the source ladydocisin used is probably the best center in the country for breast cancer treatment, the more invasive test may be a higher standard.

Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center is outstanding, especially in dealing with breast cancer. While much of the rest of North Carolina still treats this common disease with modified radical mastectomy and even radical mastectomy, Duke has a better history with minimal margin lumpectomy and combined radiation and chemotherapy.

I take any research from these people very seriously.

Speed

RN here. A Pap test looks for abnormal cervical cells using a microscope. Thats all it does, nothing else.

The Halo (breast pap test was a coined phrase from the device manufacturer) device is still out there and has nothing to do with a cervical pap test.

It's essentially an automated nipple aspiration device. The FDA didn't pull it from the market but cracked down on deceptive advertising of its efficacy long ago. The problem was, and is as far as I know, that there is zero evidence that analyzing cells from breast fluid can be a marker for breast cancer one way or another. It does fit into the play space very nicely though for those looking for something unusual that actually exists in the real medical world