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Developing Asymmetry at Screening - Tech Consulted Radiologist
Hello All - I'm 52 and have heterogeneously dense breasts and got my first baseline mammogram at 35. I've been fairly consistent with mammograms since 40 aside from last year, so it was 2 years since my last screening when I went a week ago. I've had recalls here and there and have learned not to get too upset about them…
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Feels like pebble near areola right breast
Hi, searching for information and assurance. Last month I felt a lump, feels like a pebble, right breast, near areola. I noticed it and pressed on it because I felt like I had a scratch in the area and it was red and bit irritated. I’m 62 and I am a uterine sarcoma survivor taking Letrozole for 11 of the last 13 years as…
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Architectural distortion but nothing on ultrasound
I’m 35 with a history of cysts in my left breast. I noticed a new more stretch marks and what looked like a dimple a few weeks ago. My doctor scheduled me for a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound. The 3d mammogram found an area of “architectural distortion and two well circumscribed masses”. The ultrasound showed 2 small…
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Not breastfeeding but diagnosed mastitis
Experienced intense breast pain on Friday. Warm to touch, flu like symptoms, hard lump near my nipple (right breast). Same breast I have had ultrasounds done for the same lump location for over a year - they always told me, “let’s wait, come back in 6 months and see what happens”. Went to ER Friday night, gave me…
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Can cancer lumps suddenly appear overnight?
Yesterday morning I was showering as I always do & when I washed underneath my left breast I felt a small (tip of index finger size), hard, painful when pressed on lump. I have very large breasts, I just turned 39 and have two children. This hard lump was not there the day before yesterday. It suddenly appeared within a…
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What does it mean for a lump to be moveable?
I can't seem to wrap my head around what this means. I have a lump in my breast that according to my doctor is mobile, but I don't know what that means. I can feel the top of it, but it's definitely attached to something, I can't feel the underside of it. I trust my doctor, I just keep seeing this idea that cancerous lumps…
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In the Awful Waiting Period Between a BIRADS 4 Mammogram and a Biopsy
Hi folks… As the title suggests, I'm in the dreaded limbo-land between tests. I have dense breasts, and this was not my first time being called back for a follow-up mammogram. It was, however, the first time I was called back for something other than the density mucking up the images. This time, it was for tightly grouped…
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Does Breast Cancer Hurt - honest truth from bc patients
Answer::: yes. I started a topic yesterday, Breast Cancer Symptoms, link live, and half the women mentioned their mass DID hurt before dx, biopsy and surgery. Still, we are being told by so very many of our MDs and breast surgeons (bs), in online searches and lists in magazines false information, them saying that the good…
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Two-month wait for callback mammogram
Hi, all: I am 44 and just had my first screening mammogram. I've been called back for a diagnostic mammogram (BiRADS 0). Neither the radiologist nor the PCP has shared the reasons; I've tried reading the radiology report myself and have gathered that my right breast looks different from my left breast. I've been told that…
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Asymmetry on first screening mammogram. Scared. Please help.
I'm 40 and got my first screening mammogram (3D) a few days ago. They found a "small lateral asymmetry best seen on CC tomosynthesis" on my left breast. They didn't see any microcalcifications. They captured a few extra images, so I'm guessing they saw it on multiple ones. The BIRADS score is 0, which means they need…