Opinions needed, please

If it was very small it could have been missed on the mammagram, there is no telling.  I always got a mammogram every year also but it missed mine too.  Found the lump myself and then did a ultrasound then  biopsy, then mastectomy.  The Dr. probably can't give an opinion because they simply don't know..  Did the mammogram find it this time?

nanda, i don't know what your pathology said but my bs told me my tumor grew very very fast. i am her2+++ and they are very agressive.  i was beating myself up because i had skipped my mamo so maybe she was trying to make me feel better but she did repeatedly say that it probably wouldn't have mattered.  treatment is hard but doable and you will find strength that perhaps you didn't know you had.  good luck.

My surgeon told me that these things can be growing for 7 to 10 years BEFORE they even show up on a mammogram...  I do not trust Mammograms, since it didn't find mine, until I felt it.  Then I had a DIAGNOSTIC mammo, and an u/s, and it showed up on both.  Mine was .8mm and I was glad that it was still small, but if I hadn't felt it, I wonder if a regular mammogram would have found it. 

Hi, Nanda-

It's the night before an excisional biopsy, and I just logged on. I can't say I know much about finding lumps or not, but I have to tell you: I am the very same, in terms of the years and results (until now). For 20 years (actually, 23) I've had biopsies, calcifications, fibroadenomas, etc etc.  I recently got diagnosed with LCIS and atypical hyperplasia, but the kicker -and tomorrow's biopsy - is related to something they still don't see on the mammogram.  It's a dark mass near the chest wall, and the mammogram was never going to get that... (In fact, it was the "nuclear" test- aka breast gamma scan that did).  Anyway... my thoughts are with you, and I have to say... just knowing there is someone out there who has had this nagging problem for 20-plus years is very comforting to me, for some reason.  Best of luck to you (I'll let you know if this one actually turns out to be something; who knows, it may.)  -- Other Shoe

HI Nanda, I also had yearly mammo's because of strong family history{ My mother, My Grandmother, My GreatGrandmother} I was very persistant on a Breast MRI!  Good thing too, because my MRI showed 2 spots of cancer which My Dr. told me a Mammogram would never show until I could feel it. I had MRI  done same day as Mammo!.  Biopsy came back as IDC, 1.2cm and .05 cm. no nodes and stage 1.  I had a bilat. mastectomy with tissue expanders. I Feel more women should fight their Insurance Co. for Breast MRI's.  Cancer can be found early and save on long hard treatments. I am so very fortunate to only need to take Tamoxifen for 5 years. I wish you well  and send  you gentle hugs.  Jeanie