Inverted Nipple

donnatom

I had IDC  breast cancer in 2007. Now I have an inverted nipple on the other breast. It did not show anything on my mammogram but  Ultra sound showed a suspicious cyst. In reading about symtoms of IDC it appears that I should be having more symptoms then just inverted nipple. I will go for a biopsy tomorrow. Has anyone words of wisdom as to just having the one sympton?

Donna

shiny

No words of wisdom on the 1 symptom thing. Just wanted to know you have been read and say;

You are doing the right thing in fully investigating this out. I don't envy you this long night ahead, as you know, the waiting..is the worse.

 Hopefully all will be just peachy, goodness knows there have been many many a woman gone through all the stress for a cyst to reveil itself. If you are unlucky and it is not, you will then be in a position to take action which is always more enabling then not knowing.

All my best with your tests. Always good to be pro active and check things out, even if at the time it causes us mega stress.

Take care and well done for going to have this looked at and not ignoring it. Wishing you B9 celebrations.

Shiny

icey

The inverted nipple was the only sign I had. I noticed for the last year my nipple showly started to invert. and I read on the internet that this could be a sigh of cancer. So I had my first mammogram at 47 it came back birads 5 so I have a steriotactic biopsy that only showed atypia and hydroplasia. The surgon wanted to take to area out so I have surgery two weeks ago and the lumpectomy pathology report says Invasive Ductal carcinoma grade1 and 2cm. I am waiting to see oncologist for treatment. I had a thickening that I could not feel. Breast cancer does not run in my family so this was a shock to me. I hope yours is just a cyst.

mawhinney

Cancer is sneaky  devil so it is always best to check concerns out. I had a nipple start to invert. It would mildly ache every so often.  In the back of my mind I had remembered that an inverted nippple was one of the less publicized indications of cancer.  My gyn didn't think it was anything and could not feel a mass but did send me for a diagnostic mammo. Mammo showed 2 questionable areas that weren't seen on my mammo 7 months earlier.  Turned out to  IDC

thegoodfight

Here's an interesting thought.  I had an inverted nipple way back in 1978.   Surgery showed it was clogged milk ducts from nursing my first baby.  They snipped a few and I was able to successfully nurse two more children.  Thirty One years later I was diagnosed with IDC (see my signature below).  I actually had two separate primary cancers in two different quadrants of the breast.  Yes, the same breast.  Could there really be a connection 31 years later????????????  I really do not think so and still believe the inverted nipple was caused by clogged ducts, but it sure is interesting.

Caren

otter

Caren, that's an interesting story.  I, too, had an inverted nipple on my BC side; but mine had been inverted for about 20 years (maybe longer).  I realized at some point that it could be a sign of BC; but I had been going to all my GYN appts and was having mammograms on schedule (once I reached 40), and everything was okay for a very long time.

I did develop a pretty good-sized cyst on that side, oh, maybe 10 years ago. (My breasts were always fibrocystic, so that wasn't surprising.)  My GYN aspirated the cyst and the path lab said the contents were "benign". The cyst never came back. (It was in a different place than the tumor I eventually got.)

I had a horrible mammogram in 2004 -- the tech couldn't figure out how to capture my small-sized boob between the plates and she would not touch me to position my boob correctly.  Instead, she pressed the edge of the upper plate against my upper chest, pushed really hard against my back, and used the movement of the  upper plate to "scrape" the breast tissue down to where she had stopped the lower plate (which was several inches too low).  She did that 3 times, maybe 4, on what eventually became my BC side, never getting my entire breast between those dadgum plates.  She finally gave up after leaving actual scrape marks (abrasions) in the skin of my upper chest. I think the nipple inversion was worse after that.

When I found a new lump on that side that ended up being dx'd as IDC, my "onco team" noted in my record that the nipple was inverted.  I doubt it had anything to do with my BC, unless that sucker had been growing in that breast for a lot longer than 20+ years.

otter