New Tumor or Scar Tissue? Need help!

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Keke713
Keke713 Member Posts: 91
edited March 2015 in Breast Reconstruction

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good morning. Im not sure if this is the right place to post this, but if anyone has been through a similar situation, id love some input. I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in Jan of 2013. I underwent a bilateral mastectomy in March of the same year. I've had ultrasounds of my left breast (cancer was in the right) every six months since due to some scar tissue that they wanted to keep an eye on. Up until now, everything has looked fine. I went in last week for my ultrasound and they found a lump with irregular borders that they want to do surgery and biopsy. They are thinking its just scar tissue that took a different shape, but I'm TERRIFIED to go through this again. To add to the stress of this, I'm 14 weeks pregnant and the thought of going under general anesthesia scares me so much. Has anyone ever had a biopsy on something like this and it ended up being scar tissue? This is the report from my visit last week. Thank you.

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  • LAstar
    LAstar Member Posts: 1,574
    edited March 2015

    A lot of women end up with oil cysts after breast surgery. I had a few small lumps about a year after my BMX and reconstruction, and more than a few women in my cohort also found lumps soon after. Any breast injury can cause oil cysts from necrosis. My doc identified mine through an MRI but my local docs did not know how to interpret the images for flap recon. Biopsy is the best way to diagnose. Hopefully that is all it is. Sending you hugs for going through this right now. Congratulations and best wishes for a smooth pregnancy!

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