Re: worried: bumps on scar line - biopsy indicates allergy
Dear Shobha,
I'm a pathologist and I see this kind of skin reaction every day under my microscope. IT IS NOT CANCER!
About 50% of the time no specific cause is found, but it can be due to a drug, or food, insect bite, a cream applied to the skin, laundry powder etc. Occasionally a fungal infection is the cause, but that would have probably shown on the biopsy, if no anti-fungal cream had been used prior to the biopsy. Some people just have a tendency to rashes (eczema).
Mostly the treatment is corticosteroid cream which an oral antihistamine if particularly itchy.
Hope it clears up soon.
Aussie Girl
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31mm Infiltrating duct carcinoma
Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+, Neg Sentinel nodes x 5
49mm field of DCIS
17 June '13: Screen detected impalpable mass, Mammogram neg, US.
25 June '13: Diagnosed after multiple biopsies and MRIs
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