Delay breast screening after COVID-19 inoculation: new advice
Women should allow six weeks between their COVID-19 vaccine and a screening mammogram because of the phenomenon of vaccine-induced lymphadenopathy, Australian radiologists advise.
Recent reports from the US indicate the immune response to the vaccine can manifest as unilateral axillary lymphadenopathy on the vaccination side, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists said in a statement.