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I am sure I have cancer and my doctors won’t listen
Hello everyone, looking for some insight and some advice for my situation. I started with nipple sensitivity in 2015 as well as breast fullness and heaviness. I went to the dr got an ultrasound and they said it’s hormonal. There are times where only my left breast hurts and aches and my nipple is erect. My husband can’t…
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Calcifications in a milk duct
I just turned 40 on the 8th of June so I'm fairly new to the whole mammogram scene and the issues that can be found from those. About 4 years ago (age of 35), I did have some nipple discharge from one nipple that would only come out if I messed with it or forced it to come out. Well, I ended up freaking myself out over it…
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Nurse Navigator
I am meeting with a different radiologist to go over my biopsy results. The appointment is listed under "Nurse Navigator" in My Chart. This doesn't sound good, right? What questions do I need to ask? Already crying. Worried.
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Breast MRI Results
My doctor recommended that I start receiving Breast MRI exams due to my lifetime risk %, as my mother had a breast cancer diagnosis at 49 years old. She is still a survivor 18 years later. I just turned 43 years old, and consider myself relatively healthy. I had an abnormal mammogram two years ago, and after a sonogram,…
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Worried
Hello All, I am a 38 year old female with two small children. I have been having breast discharge (only when squeezed) since I last breastfed 3 years ago. I thought this was normal but I mentioned it at my last check up. I had a normal mammogram and ultrasound. However, they tested the fluid and found Rare atypical…
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Pain in one breast, no lumps, not due to my period. How worried should I be?
I’m a 45 year old woman and my mom had a rare form of cancer (phyllodes tumor), which is more of a sarcoma than breast cancer. It did unfortunately, take her life. Due to family history, I’ve been getting mammograms since 40. That said, I’ve had random pains that I would describe as shooting pains in my left breast. Very…
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Rash
I started with a rash on right breast now it has spread and deeper in colour. I have a dr appt this afternoon . Can anyone think what it could be . Upper pic yesterday Lower pic today (EDITED BY MODS to remove photos)
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Predicting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Risk in Young Black Women
Predicting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Risk in Young Black Women Jun 1, 2024 Drs. Holly Pederson and Elisha Hughes explain their research on polygenic risk scores. Black women have a higher risk of developing triple-negative breast cancer at a young age than white women. At the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology…
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The Boob Bus
The Boob Bus May 24, 2024 Rena Vanzo started The Boob Bus to make mammograms more personalized and fun. There are many reasons women don’t get annual mammograms, including the distance to a mammogram facility, lack of transportation, or not having a primary care doctor. Licensed, certified genetic counselor Rena Vanzo…
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Abnormal Mamo & Ultrasound not how I thought my day was gonna go
Went in for a diagnostic mamo yesterday for one thing and came out needing a biopsy for another. It was BIRADS 4 so trying not to think too much of it, would feel better if it said round or ovoid but I got irregular, angular, and indistinct. Biopsy on 6/25 so I will just try and enjoy my vaca next week and not worry about…
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Numbness/ tingling in left arm… how concerned should I be that this is cancer?
I am a 45 year old woman and there is breast cancer in my family history. My mom died of a rare aggressive form of it last year, but it was technically a sarcoma (phyllodes tumor) and not a true breast cancer. I am negative for BRCA and she was negative for sarcoma genes, but I’ve been getting annual mammograms since I was…
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polyurethane foam cups
I would like to share with everyone my concern regarding a terrible experience I recently had with polyurethane foam bra cups. I need help getting this information into the hands of individuals that can help get this subject out into the public eye and hopefully promote legislation to prevent the sale of these products. We…
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Birads 4 with some oval lumps and axillary lymph node with thick cortex
Mammo and US show 2 lumps in right breast. Both are less than 1 cm and oval shaped and well circumscrimed margins and hypoechoic, parallel to chest. They were told as "probably benign" There is also an axillary lymph node with central fatty vascular hilum, but with a thickened cortex upto 8mm. The radiologist said, masses…
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Biopsy or not
Supposed to schedule one. But worried about it making it spread. They are concerned it could be cancerous. But my lymph nodes look fine. Why not just take it out then send it off for testing? Also my breasts are also very dense. Should I look for a doc to just take it out? Or is that too risky wait? The doc I visited just…
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Mildly enlarged axillary lymph nodes cortical thickening 4mm
I recently had my first screening mammogram in Feb and was called back due to an assymetry for diagnostic and possible ultrasound and couldn't get back in until May. During the second one, some lymph nodes were found. I've been asked to come back in 3 months and 6 months. I've been going down the rabbit hole and panicking.…
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Another confused newbie...
I am feeling very alone in all of this. I went from a perfectly normal mammo, to a cyst that just needed to be drained to a highly suspicious BI-RADS Category 0 to a highly suspicious 4C diagnostic ultrasound and Abnormal lymph nodes in 3 months' time. My doctor said she cannot tell me what the diagnostic mammo &…
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Mammogram
I just got a mammogram and it came back 3.3 cm asymmetry on right breast us follow up advised. Any other women had a dx of breast cancer that started this way.
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My Results: Anyone knows what this means
Results Abnormal Impression 1. Negative left 2. 6 mm asymmetry central right MLO posterior third. Recommend right ML, spot right MLO, rolled right CC, right ultrasound 3. Prominent right axillary lymph nodes. Recommend right axillary ultrasound 4. Ultrasound may be cancelled if finding does not persist. BI-RADS CATEGORY 0:…
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What to ask at first appt?
I need help understanding what to ask and how to advocate for myself at my appointment tomorrow. First, my condition: My right breast has hurt for five weeks, it’s really sore, but not hormonal sore. Totally different feeling. Sometimes it’s a low key burning sensation, sometimes a shooting pain, sometimes throbbing, but…
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Do I need to find a breast surgeon?
I've been waiting a few weeks to have a biopsy done for a .7mm spiculated mass. It is scheduled for Thurs but giiven the likelihood of a future week(s) long wait for the results, I'm wondering if I should try to get an appointment with a breast surgeon, or if I am jumping the gun. I'm concerned about the delays, especially…
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Focal Non Mass Enhancement with Washout Kinetic Enhancement
Hello- I'm back again…I have dense breast tissue (48y/o) and finally advocated my way to an MRI approval. In January I had my annual mammogram which was clear (I've had 4 biopsies over the last 8 years, so it's rare that it's completely clear). However, I'm in peri-menopause and have had left side arm-pit pain (right where…
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Waiting on biopsy
Hi! Never thought I'd be here, but I guess that's the same for everyone. Long story short, I found a lump while in the shower a few weeks ago. Went to see PCP, referred for mammogram and ultrasound. Got back the report with a bi rads score of 5. Findings: Heterogeneously dense breasts. Upper Inner quadrant, 1 o'clock,…
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Birad 4 -suspicious abnormality
Hello all of you wonderful brave women, This is my 2nd time coming back to this site and reading through posts of encouragement from others. At 41, I had a suspicious finding and a stereotypic biopsy. Results were benign. Now I am here again 5 years later and playing the wait game. My annual mammogram was April 18th and on…
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Multiple MRI's w/varied BIRADS
I am higher risk due to family history and I have had a total of 4 biopsies, 2 in each breast (needle x1, needle core x2, and wire guided surgical x1) within the past 8 years (architectural distortion, masses, & cysts). Thankfully all have been benign. My last mammogram was the first normal mammogram I've had, BRIAD2, July…
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Nipple-sparing double mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction
Hello, I apologize if this is not the place to ask or if I could have found this answer elsewhere. I am new to the forum and was a little confused trying to navigate. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at 47 years old. She is the first in her family to get breast cancer. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer…
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MRI Guided Biopsies
I've had 3 BIRADS 4 on ultrasound over time in the past 3 years and each time resulted in a biopsies. All came back benign (thank God). I'm considered as high risk with LCIS and family history so I have to do MRI once in a year. I did MRI for the first time and it showed multiple BIRADS 4 areas(4 in total) in my both…
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Bi Rads 4 - Suspicious Hypoechoic Lesion
Hello everyone, I had a lump pop up out of no where back in December. Reached out to my doctor a month later to let him know I was feeling a possible lump. At this point still thinking it was period related or a cyst or something like that. Two months later the lump had not gone away so I went into the doctors to get his…
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Bi-rads 4 Suspicious for Malignancy
Hi everyone. I recently had my yearly mammogram, was called back in for a repeat diagnostic mammogram, and am now scheduled for a stereotactic biopsy on Wednesday. I am the type where I like to plan and research, so that I am prepared for best case/worst case scenario. I know that many say "don't think too much about it…
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Interpreting Mammograms: Calcifications
from the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Boot Camp
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Pain Before Diagnosis
Hi everyone. I’m hoping you guys can give me some information or ideas. I have seen my ob and I have a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound scheduled in 4 days. I’m wondering about the pain. It is my biggest symptom. The pain started out like I was cold. It wasn’t very painful, but my nipple hurt like I stepped into very…