Lump or something else?

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CarolynVM
CarolynVM Member Posts: 137
edited August 2014 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned


For maybe a month my left breast (the lumpectomy one) has been on-and-off tender around the upper edge.  A week or two ago I was feeling the breast where it hurt and distinctly felt a BB-sized "something".  It was hard and there was no question it was there.  Except when I've tried to feel it since, I can't find it!  Instead of calling the doctor I keep searching and rationalizing that maybe it's scar tissue (although there was no surgery in that precise region) or maybe even some kind of marker or a left-over radiation seed or maybe I only imagined it (I didn't).  I'm going to call my surgeon tomorrow morning but is it possible it really IS nothing?

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  • bevin
    bevin Member Posts: 1,902
    edited August 2014

    It is possible, but its good to follow through and check. Let us know what the doctor thinks and good luck

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  • CarolynVM
    CarolynVM Member Posts: 137
    edited August 2014


    I see the doctor's assistant Friday.  Now, though, I'm wondering if it really could be a tiny tumor.

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  • CarolynVM
    CarolynVM Member Posts: 137
    edited August 2014


    It's definitely a lump but the assistant said it could possibly be scar tissue from the lymph node removal.  I'll have a mammogram and ultrasound Monday morning.  It feels good to realistically accept that it could be just scar tissue.

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  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 6,197
    edited August 2014

    I just had another Biopsy a couple of weeks ago for a moveable lump I discovered just under my Mx scar.

    It was a very scary couple of weeks while I waited for the pathology, and the call from my Surgeon. I was pretty sure it was going to be ok when the stereotactic gun actually made the lump disappear off the screen when it took the first core.

    Apparently, it isn't unusual to have cysts and undissolved stitches or scar tissue appear as lumps.

    I wish you all the very best, let us know how you get on.

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  • CarolynVM
    CarolynVM Member Posts: 137
    edited August 2014


    No cancer on the mammogram or ultrasound.  The ultrasound saw nothing whatsoever.  Apparently the mammogram also saw nothing or if they did, it wasn't anything worrisome.  I'll see my surgeon again in a few weeks and ask more about what the lump is since it didn't show up on either test.  Right now, I'm satisfied.

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