Dense breasts, missed 4 cm lump....

glorianna

Hi,

I am 47 yrs old, dense breasts, 3 of 4. Wish I had had the prof. mastectomy

a year ago. Recently a 4 cm lump behind the nipples was, fouond with blood from the nipple.

Birads 4. Blood shows intraductal papilloma profileration.

Ultrasound color doppler shows activity. Not good acc to breast surgeon.

I truly regret, I could not get the prof. mastectomy.

My life would have been quite different.

I have been offered breast removal at university hospital now,

'but its too late.'

Trust your inner feeling when its wrong.

MelissaDallas

Intraductal papillomas are almost always benign so I don't understand your thinking it is "too late". Also, a grade 3 of 4 is considered normally dense breasts for someone premenopausal, not extremely dense.

Beesie

Glorianna, you and I exchanged a series of posts a couple of months ago.  You came here desperate to find a surgeon who will perform prophylactic mastectomies on you because you believe that you are high risk.  Through our exchange of notes, it became clear to me that you are terrified of breast cancer - but it appears that you are actually not high risk at all.

Your mother died of an unrelated cancer (brain, I believe). You had an ovarian tumor (but you have not indicated that it was cancer).  You have hyperplasia in your breast, but not atypical hyperplasia.  You have heterogenously dense breasts, which is normal for your age. 

Now you have an intraductal papilloma. Hopefully that's all it is - as MelissaDallas said, intraductal papillomas are benign.  When are you having a biopsy?

CTMOM1234

Glorianna - I am truly sorry that you are experiencing such regrets. There are a lot of newbies on these boards -- I was one nearly 4 years ago -- and a bc diagnosis is so so very scary. But I did want to add my own perspective response, as you seem to be starting quite a number of new emotional posts to these boards (I believe I've read 5 that you've added just on September 12th) and your bio provides no information.

I was younger than you -- just 44 years old -- when diagnosed and had absolutely no reason to ever expect that I'd get bc; there's not a single man or woman anywhere in my family who has ever had bc. And like you, I apparently have dense breasts, just the unluck of the draw. Once I got my diagnosis, I vowed to make educated decisions with the best information available to me at the time, and in order to keep my sanity I was not for one day going to live with regrets. That has continued to be my position, no matter what the future brings.

There has never been a single day in the approximately 1400 days since my diagnosis that I have ever wished I'd instead had a mx or bmx (both mx and bmx were understand consideration until the favorable results came back from my MRI and BRCA genetic testing) rather than a lumpectomy and radiation. These are amputations, there is no going back.

glorianna

Hi,

Yes, I am afraid of cancer until I get planned surgery done. I have a 4 cm palpable hard rock lump behind my nipple. I wish I had the talent of knowning other breastorg members personal and confidential health diseases, cancer or not, about breastsisters I have never met, and then making unscientifical opinions of if they have cancer or not. Welcome over, come with me to the worldknown Uppsala University Hospital, follow me to a follow up at the livertumourconference follow up, or come along and find out why I have a newlung nodule and other transformations

on my lungs. Or to the breastsurgeon writing words of cancer and metastasis in his script at the same hospital.

I can carry on, but choose to keep my private health status for myself. Regarding pathology of gyn. surgery, a pathlogy doctor did incorrect pathology of a gyn. tumor for a woman in my age, and she died. It was not a cyst,

a tumor. This is the same hospital I was operated at, and no histology done. The head health authority have offered

to check this up.   I can get back to you after surgery.        Take care, God Bless

Beesie

Glorianna, everything that I said in my post was information that you had provided previously in your posts - I don't have any talent for knowing anything about your health except what you've told us.  You came here previously very concerned about being high risk and desperate to have a PBMX.  When you explained the factors that had you believing you were high risk (the things I mentioned in my previous post), several of us explained that there appeared to be nothing there was a high risk factor.  We were just trying to understand what was behind your concerns, and we were trying to reassure you.  And that's all anyone here is trying to do now. Reassure you.  You are posting "it's too late" before you even have a diagnosis of breast cancer.  Maybe you will be diagnosed, or maybe not.  But even if you are, most breast cancer diagnoses are early stage and very treatable.

About your concerns about your ovarian cyst, if another woman in a similar situation to you was misdiagnosed at your hospital (told she had a cyst but in fact had cancer) that would certainly be a good reason to ask to have your sample relooked, if that can still be done.

Good luck with your surgery.