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I'm sorry that I can't type a longer reply, I'm on the way out of the house. I did want to make sure your question was answered, though. No, it is not always true that malignant lumps are painless. It is a myth, many of our tumors had pain associated; however, pain is not usually associated. It's the myth that it is never associated that irks many of us here. Good luck to you.

Hi Kevin,

I am glad you are getting biopsies. It is not true that malignancies are always painless. This is a rather dangerous, yet common, assumption and unfortunately one that even some medical providers seem to hold! Many people have experienced pain with their malignancies, but you are not alone in being told or believing that breast cancer is not painful.

I am hoping however your results are benign, and there are indeed some possible benign causes for painful "marble-like" tumors, such as lipomas (my husband has a handful of these in various places though none in his breast/chest to date, and while they are generally supposed to be painless his are often painful and he has had a couple removed and biopsied before).

Sorry that is probably not the answer you want to hear, and I am sure you are well aware men can get breast cancer too, even if they don't have gynecomastia (the "man boobs") but at this point all you can do is wait and see what the results are. Again, hoping they are benign!

No. Real tumors can produce real pain. For me, it started when my overall straps rubbed my breast. I stopped wearing overalls. But, at the oddest times, my breast would have pain. And then heaviness. Not sure how this translates to a male breast, but pain does NOT mean there is no tumor.

Hope your appointment goes well,

*susan*

Hi Kevin,

I didn't have pain with my tumor, but I did have a lot of pain with a large cyst. And that is what got me to the doctor. The cancer was found when they did tests to check the cyst.

I have friends who had pain with their tumors. I think with breast cancer anything is possible. It is so different for each of us.

I hope your biopsy next week turns out to be benign.

Wishing you the best,

Bren

pain is what alerted me to the lump. rolled over in bed one night and felt a stinging. I hadnt fount it before due to diabetic neuropathy(numb hands) already to stage 4 and spread. it hurt if you felt it.

I noticed that too!