ANyone develop lumps on your ribs?????????

moogie
moogie Member Posts: 499
edited June 2014 in High Risk of Recurrence or Second Breast Cancer
anyone develop lumps on your ribs????????
#459598 - 11/06/06 03:05 PM Edit Reply Quote Quick Reply



Had bilateral in may, without invasive disease ( with imaging that indicated such more than 50%) in final pathology and am now going through reconstruction. Found 2 lumps below my former site of the problem breast over my ribs, and had them felt by my plastics doctor today. One is quite big and has grown over the last 3 weeks to the size of a slightly bigger LINDT truffle. The other is the size of a peanut M&M on steroids.
Has anyone else developed lumps over the ribs in a place not formerly part of your breast? They said it wouldn't be the common way to find additional breast cancer, but I will be worried until a biopsy is taken .

Moogie
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  • sherloc
    sherloc Member Posts: 1,047
    edited November 2006

    Hi Moogie. Not sure if this helps but since treatment I have seem to have a tendency to develop lipomas. Lipoma is a benign fatty tissue tumor. They show up seemingly overnight, grow very quickly, and rarely cause any problems or pain. I have had two removed. One was in my good boob, that one scared the bejeebers outa me. The other was growing into my muscle on my back and was causing a lot of pain.

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  • Graycie
    Graycie Member Posts: 839
    edited November 2006

    I have a lump on my rib under the BC breast. I was also told it was a fatty tumor. I had it before I was dx with BC. Some day's it feel's large and then sometimes I can hardly find it. She described it as being like the fat on a chicken.It has been a few years now since I found it so I guess she must be right that it is nothing even though a biopsy was never taken.

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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited November 2006
    Thanks so much for replying. I thought " oh lord.If nobody else here has had this, I'm in big trouble!!!!"
    Next week I go for a biosy and a nipple recon with revision. My lump somehow feels spongey and a bit smaller now, so the suggestion by the PS that it might be a lymph node seesm more likely to me now. I'm pretty swollen across my ribs and to my sides after my surgery. When I wear a bra, maybe it makes the swelling worse.
    Thank you ! I'm hoping for a wad of fat at diagnosis. Never thought I'd be asking for a fat wad, but here I am!!!
    Moogie
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  • janie44
    janie44 Member Posts: 1,460
    edited December 2006
    Hi Moogie,

    I had two lumps on my ribs in the back. If I remember correctly, they were painful and that is what took me to my doctor who said, "It is about time for your annual mammogram." Nothing ever came of the lumps, but the rest is history. Hopefully, your lumps will be benign as well. Hugggs........janie
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  • sharalou
    sharalou Member Posts: 223
    edited December 2006
    Hi. I feel a lump on opposite side (had left mastectomy-feel this on right side-not breast, but side). Had Mri, and Ultrasound-both negative. It hurts a bit,and my bra feels very,very tight. My breast surgeon(rather the nurse), did not feel anything in the breast, and shipped me to the physical medicine doctor-who works strictly with breast cancer pat. He is putting me through some physical therapy(actually the therapist, is just kind of working in that area with her hands). Have had two weeks-with NO RELIEF! Just called the physical med. doctor today, and left a message. I am at my wits end. They say muscle, but it's SO UNCOMFORTABLE. WHAT TO DO???

    Shari
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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited December 2006
    Saw the surgeon and I have thank god...a fat wad!! She said it was a mishap on her part, some fat must have been trapped under some rectus muscle or other during mastectomy. But she was very clear that it was not anything else. ANd offered to remove it....but since I want to lose 20 pounds anyway, this small fat wad isn't going to hang me up!! It's just fine by me, right where it is!!!
    Thanks for all the support!
    Moogie
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  • sharalou
    sharalou Member Posts: 223
    edited December 2006
    mind is weird, cause it's on the opposite side. how did your surgeon know it was a fat pad?

    Shari
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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited December 2006
    She said that in the surgery, if I understood correctly , a muscle was pulled ....and it was a technical error grabbing a shelf of my rib fat and trapping it. I assume this is not an uncommon occurrence, and she told me no biopsy was necessary given the location, and the way it felt ( I am guessing consistency/shape/ etc..). I also did not have invasive disease , and clear nodes. She told me about how to examine myself for changes in my scar , and to feel for lumps that feel like gravel under the skin as being of concern. She put my risk after bilateral masts for occurence of bc at 3%, given current studies.
    Moogie
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  • Graycie
    Graycie Member Posts: 839
    edited December 2006
    Moogie, Glad to hear everything worked out for you and it is just a fat pad....I thought it sounded like what I have. 3% chance of a reoccurence is wonderful. I wish my doctor could tell me good new's like that. Unfortunately I did have a positive lymph node and I am triple neg for hormone's so I have to rely on the chemo working for me.

    Graycie
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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited December 2006
    I wish you the very best and thanks for your reply!!Going into my surgery the area on one breast thru MRI was vast and abnormal.....75% of the breast. It had changed, enhanced and grown in just 2 months....since my 7th excisional biopsy. They thought it had a high probability of being invasive , so I had SNB...and the other breast prophylactively removed. I cannot take tamoxifen or AI's, and other chemical options like Lupron were considered too risky due to other medical conditions I have. The second breast had a full range of precancerous changes...and nothing had yet showed up on imaging ( lcis, adh, etc...).
    TIming was everything in my case, and I think being in a high risk program had a lot to do with early detection of abnormalities in my problem breast. Having a team of doctors review your findings gave me piece of mind, getting imaging about every 3 months.
    Hope that you are doing well and had a good holiday!
    Moogie
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  • lmckenzie
    lmckenzie Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2007

    Could you tell me a little more about the one on your back. MY shoulder blade is real sore and is very painful. Is this similar to yours?

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  • Arrow3
    Arrow3 Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2008

    I have lumps on my ribs too and was told it was fatty tumor. Now I have more.  They seem to come overnite. I also have a problem with fibroadenomas in my breasts(both). This has been a 30 year problem for me - but I guess I shouldn't think of it as a problem because it is not cancer - Thank god.

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  • snowyday
    snowyday Member Posts: 1,478
    edited February 2008

    I don't know if it's the original cancer or what but I have a lump in the same spot as where they took out my tumour. So I'm going through the whole scans etc again to hopefully get a jump on it this time.  Bone scan yesterday not what I hoped for tody is a crying day. I'm signing off now.  And everyone pray for a miracle for Joane 1428 we need one and maybe if we all say a prayer for her it will work. Pearl

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  • LHLH
    LHLH Member Posts: 1
    edited October 2012

    I just found this site because I discovered a painful lump on my ribs (had double mastectomy 1 year ago). Seems this is a recurring theme among us and that it could definately be just a fatty tumor or something. Have ONC appt next Fri to make sure. THX all.

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