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Mammo update, BIRADS 3.
I saw my surgeon yesterday & got the full report on what exactly was found on my mammo. (As most of you know, I was told to WAIT 6 months for follow-up mammo.) But NO WAY.
Mammo report says: Breast tissue is average. This could obscure a lesion on mammography. There is a benign-appearing 0.7 cm density round mass with well-defined margins in the left breast at 2 o'clock anteriorly, consistent with lymph node, cyst, or fibroadenoma. Conclusion: Probably benign finding (BIRADS 3).
My surgeon said its a lymph node in the breast? They were MISSING my mammo from last year & just NOW told me. They could not make a comparison without it. (Which they now have.)
My surgeon didn't seem that concerned...but I am! I have been telling him & my onc for a long time now I have had PAIN in my left breast & axilla area. It got REALLY bad a few wks ago when my onc would NOT let me have my zoladex until she checked my estrodiol level which was way UP without it. I wouldn't be all the concerned if not for this on-going pain in that breast. nipple & axilla area. Plus my breast seems a cup size larger. My surgeon said that can happen after you have a mastectomy on the OTHER side. (Sure got big all of a sudden?)
I called today to see if they compared them yet? She said they would get back to me next wk. I told her I did NOT want to WAIT anymore. I've waited long enough and I have PAIN & I am concerned. I want a MRI & US ASAP. She finally called back & said the soonest they can get me a ultrasound is NEXT Thrus.. I am hopping mad.
Does anyone know of ANY thing else that could be causing this breast to be larger & the pain in it? My surgeon told me absolutely nothing. If it is a lymph node in the breast or a cyst...can it cause all this pain and tenderness in nipple and breast area without being cancer? (I'm stressed!)
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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