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Becky · 08-21-2007, 03:16 PM

I am assuming this is your first post surgical mammo. Making that assumption, there are always things - calcifications and scar tissue from the healing process. And the surgeons always want the previous mammos - even after surgery when everything is different. Your surgeon just wants to see if anything was there before and is it bigger. You would know that as somebody would have told you that you had something benign in there. You say there was nothing there and now the surgeon sees something that he thinks is benign - well, it probably is and is just scar tissue and perhaps lucent calcifications (lucent are always benign and associated with breast injury (which surgery certainly is)).

Don't worry - after breast surgery - there are always lots and lots of new things to see.

08-21-2007, 03:16 PM	#2
Becky Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Stockton, NJ Posts: 4,179	I am assuming this is your first post surgical mammo. Making that assumption, there are always things - calcifications and scar tissue from the healing process. And the surgeons always want the previous mammos - even after surgery when everything is different. Your surgeon just wants to see if anything was there before and is it bigger. You would know that as somebody would have told you that you had something benign in there. You say there was nothing there and now the surgeon sees something that he thinks is benign - well, it probably is and is just scar tissue and perhaps lucent calcifications (lucent are always benign and associated with breast injury (which surgery certainly is)). Don't worry - after breast surgery - there are always lots and lots of new things to see. __________________ Kind regards Becky Found lump via BSE Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45 1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side) 2 micromets to sentinel node Stage 2A left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg lumpectomies 9/7/04 4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol Used Leukine instead of Neulasta 35 rads on right side only 4/05 started Tamoxifen Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations Oophorectomy 8/05 Started Arimidex 9/05 Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06 Arimidex Only Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia NED 18 years! Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"