Really?

Eskimo

I’ve never been the “it can’t happened to me type” but I was shocked when I found out I had BC yesterday. “Really? But I nursed all 3 kids and just had a mammogram in November?”

In my 30s I found a lump. It ended up being a fluid filled cyst. It often got bigger around my period and when I was pregnant.

A month ago I noticed it was getting bigger and it was sore but I had a hysterectomy last June so I thought it was hormones. It kept growing and became red and sore so last Tuesday I went to my gynecologist. He sent me for a mammogram last Thursday and they had me do a breast biopsy on Monday.

My gynecologist had me come in yesterday for the news. Ductal Carcinoma was the only thing he could tell me right now. I have to say everything was very fast! It was only 8 days from the time I saw my gyno to diagnoses.

My greatest concern is how big the lump is and how quickly it had grown. I know everyone talks about Cm so I’ll need to measure it but I know it is at least 3 inches around and has tripled in size in the last month.

It is clearly visible through my breast. I can’t wait until May 30th when I find out more.

Did anyone else have a fast growing lump?

vampeyes

Hello Eskimo,

{HUGS} I am sorry that you have found yourself in our group. According to the doctors, mine was not a fast growing tumor. I found mine in August and it was gone by November, it never grew to my knowledge between August and my first surgery in October. My thoughts are with you as you go through this, the waiting/not knowing really is the worst part of all this.

fishingal68

Welcome to the BC club (a club none of us wants to be in, but we're here to support one another), Eskimo.

My BC grew very fast too. I found a pea sized lump at the first of August, but I had a weird allergic food reaction which took top priority, so I didn't get in to my doc to check out the lump until the end of August. By that time, it was about the size of a grape. I was biopsied the next week, and was told that day I had BC. For the entire month of September, I had numerous appointments, procedures, ect before beginning chemo in October. By the time I started chemo on Oct. 4, the mass was the size of a goose egg. Thankfully chemo worked, and I got a PCR. I followed up with a double mastectomy with reconstruction in February, and am 1/2 way through my radiation treatments. (I had the trifecta of cancer treatments due to my diagnosis). As of my last PET scan, everything looks clear.

One thing my oncologist told me was that if it is a fast-growing mass, it usually responds well to chemo.

Please keep us posted, and feel free to PM me if you just need to vent! Good luck!

Cpeachymom

Hi Eskimo- scary, isn’t it? I had a clinical breast exam (too young for mammos) just over two months before I found my lump. It was over 4 cm and seems like it grew overnight. I saw it before I felt it. I’m very small chested, so it would have been hard to miss. It was only grade 1 though, just highly Er positive, so it was just glutting itself on estrogen I think. So, best case scenario, and now Tamoxifen is my best friend. Best of luck to you!

bluepearl

Eskimo...so sorry you find yourself here and hope you will get into treatment soon. At 3 inches, that would be a 7.6 cm tumour, which is large...and as someone else said, fast growing cancers respond well to chemo. You will likely have chemo to try to reduce the size before you have surgery and this will also indicate how well the chemo is working. Hopefully it will be Hr+ and her2- as well. Thinking of you!