Breast Cancer patient's daughter - my turn now?

amctanase

Hi all,

I have posted before about my mother and her journey (7 months ago) with ILC. My mom is doing very well, she just had her first follow up and she is all clear.

However, I just found 2 lumps in my right breast. Well, I found one, and the doctor at the walk-in clinic I went to found a second. She said they do not seem concerning because they are movable, but that I should do an ultrasound. I called my mother and shared this with her, and I truly wish I had not. She had a panick attack, and I now have to comfort her.

I am so scared...I saw the entire process and how it changes your life...I am 27 right now, I am scared that I will not be able to have children if I have breast cancer (I got married 3 weeks ago). My history is not that great...my mother was diagnosed with ILC at 57; my father passed away from lung cancer at 56 (smoker). Grandparents lived well into 80s and 90s.

I have an ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow, I am not sure when i will get the results...

Have any of you had multiple breast lumps at the same time?? I just don't know where to turn since my mother is so scared for me...my husband doesn't understand any of this, to him the doctor was not worried and so I should not be either.

 

Thank you ladies...

floaton

I'm not Canadian, but I saw this pop up and wanted to say that it's good you're getting your ultrasound so quickly! I know for me the radiologist came to talk to me about the need for a biopsy on the same day. That said, you're young and it is most likely benign, but as all of us on here know, that's not a guarantee. I wanted to comment too on your concern about having children and your family history. I know that, as a young woman with breast cancer, I was offered fertility counseling / preservation where they freeze eggs for later, and an appointment with a genetics counsellor right away. On the off chance this is something serious, you should be offered these as well to help with your decisions. Know there are women here who have had babies after bc. Best wishes for your ultrasound and I hope we don't have to see you around here again !

floaton

how'd the ultrasound go?? Hope it was good news.

MizMimi

Sometimes the ultrasound provides no answers. I had to have a steroatic biopsy when the US showed nothing and the mammogram did, prior to the US.

I pray your lumps are just fibrocystic breast disease, a benign condition of some sort such as fibroadenoma, etc.

Please come back to update us.

Lolis197138

Hope the u/s went well and that the results are benign. 

Don't know where in Canada you live but it is a good idea to check if the IVF costs are covered. 

I was diagnosed at 33 and I did a round of IVF and have 6 embryos waiting for me. If it is BC and early stages, a successful pregnancy and healthy baby/ies are very possible!!!!

Wishing you for positive news!!!

Hugs!!

amctanase

Hi ladies,

Thank you for your support... My ultrasound is actually on June 26 now; I went to another doctor that day and he did not seem very concerned. I will go ahead with this ultrasound though.

MizMimi I know ultrasounds are not always conclusive. My mother had an ultrasound done 4 months before her diagnosis and the result said fibroadenoma. The scary part is she had a mammogram done right after to be sure, and it said she has no signs of breast cancer (it was part of the provincial screening, that's all the report reads.) I understood that because her cancer was lobular and it grows in layers it is a hard one to detect.

Have a good night ladies.