Please LEARN from my mistakes!

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LizzyGirl15
LizzyGirl15 Member Posts: 21
edited June 2014 in Young With Breast Cancer

1. IF you feel a lump in your breast, IMMEDIATLY go to your GYN or PCA for a examination.

2. DEMAND a BIOPSY right away! A mammogram, ultra-sound, or MRI are DECENT methods to determine where cancer might be located but it WILL NOT tell you if you HAVE cancer or not. EARLY DETECTION IS KEY!!!

 3. After EVERY form of treatment or biopsy: GET A SECOND OPINION WITH NEW TISSUE SAMPLES OR SCANS FROM THAT PLACE.

4. NEVER, EVER, EVER! have surgery unless you are 100% confident that you must have to have a surgery.

5. TAKE A BREAK IF YOUR BODY OR MIND IS TELLING YOU NEED TO TAKE A BREAK. Many new "options" may formulate given TIME.

 I can not tell or begin to discuss the many tiny errors that were made with my case...that changed my future forever...

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  • jdeking
    jdeking Member Posts: 408
    edited October 2009

    Amen to that Lizzy girl! Great advice.

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  • CrunchyPoodleMama
    CrunchyPoodleMama Member Posts: 1,220
    edited October 2009

    That is great advice... but I'm so sorry that you had to go through whatever you had to go through.

    Do you mind if I ask what surgery you had that you feel was a mistake? I have a 5cm mass with BI-RADS 5 calcifications but even if it weren't cancerous, I would want this thing OUT (it's very annoying)... I guess I would say I'm 99% confident I need surgery... goodness, where is my Magic 8-ball, Special Cancer Edition. Undecided

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  • Alyad
    Alyad Member Posts: 817
    edited October 2009

    LOL- let me know if you find the Cancer Edition Magic 8 ball!

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