Swollen lymph nodes were recorded as a less common side effect in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine trials. "The idea that a vaccine should elicit an immune response, making the lymph nodes larger and seen on imaging, it’s logical," Leung said. Jessica Leung said has overlapped with the start of COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the United States. MD Anderson, like cancer centers across the country, has started to see more of these cases over the past few months, which diagnostic radiologist Dr. Swollen lymph nodes are one of the signs breast imaging experts look for during cancer screenings. My husband and I both just gave each other a big hug." "She said there’s no indications of cancer and we feel like it’s related to the vaccine," Chelin said. It wasn't until after Cathy Phillips Chelin had a mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy that she realized the swollen lymph nodes were on her left side, the same arm that received the COVID-19 shot.Ī few days later, the nurse called confirming her instincts. The images again showed no abnormalities in the breast, but several lymph nodes in the left underarm area, also known as the axilla, were unusually large.
Her nurse practitioner recommended coming back in for another mammogram and ultrasound. "Is it lymphoma? Is it some form of cancer?" "I was thinking and thinking, what could this be?" Chelin said. Cathy Phillips Chelin and her husband Hartley.
She had a routine mammogram a few months earlier that yielded normal results, but her mind automatically went to the worst. MD Anderson Cancer Center Ronna Cotton, mammography tech, helps a patient at Diagnostic Imaging -West HoustonĬathy Phillips Chelin, a retired nurse from West Houston, found a strange lump in her breast in December.
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