Breast cancer at 25, no BC history in family?

The chances of you having BC is extremely small. Try to relax. It's most likely a cyst, sounds like you may have fibrocyctic breasts.

jsn, at your age the risk of breast cancer is extremely small. They don't even keep statistics on women who have breast cancer in their twenties, it's that rare. I'm sorry to hear your father has stomach cancer. That's a low blow. However, breast cancer and stomach cancer are not generally linked, so I think you're safe there.

I think your doctor is acting out of an abundance of caution. Rather than just assuming that this lump is fibroadenoma, he wants to know exactly what this is. I wouldn't read a lot into his decision. In fact I think his decision was a good one. Just remember this: It's not cancer until they it's say it's cancer. Stay off Dr Google -- there's a lot of scary misinformation out there and none of it is going to do you any good. Breastcancer.org is the only place I would recommend to get factual information. Right now try to not focus on breast cancer. Do not grieve something that has not and may not even happen to you.

I agree with MelissaDallas, Sjacobs and Mustlovepoodles. I'll add that your traumatic response to your father's cancer diagnosis and treatment sounds significant. In fact, I would suggest that you give thought to seeing a counselor about it. There are many effective treatments for trauma (like EMDR) that can allow you to process these events as information, instead of a traumatic trigger. It is really helpful, when we have the ability to sort out what are real concerning symptoms and then be able to let go of the fear when a reasonable diagnostic workup has been performed and diagnosis sorted out. Sometimes we do have a feeling in our 'gut' and need to be able to trust that feeling and pursue a second opinion or additional diagnostics. When every twinge is perceived as "red alert, it's cancer"; then you'll live your life in constant fear and not really be able to 'trust your gut' because it will always be saying the same thing. That is really bad for your overall health, not to mention quality of life. Please take this in the spirit in which it was intended. Anxiety sucks!

Getting diagnostic procedures done is absolutely anxiety provoking, you're right. But there is anxiety that responds to distraction/relaxation and then there is crippling anxiety. Your description of "dream(ing) about cancer every night. Every week I assume that I have some form of it. This went on for months" sounds more like the crippling kind to me.

This forum is an absolute God-send to many women. Absolutely. To some (few), it can exacerbate their fears about getting/having cancer. Because the women here are not the norm. We don't represent a typical group of women. If someone is reading threads here, and using that info as 'research' about what can happen (i.e. to bolster/justify their fear), then they are using a skewed sample, meaning we aren't representative of the general population.

I'm sorry if my suggestion made it sound as if your anxiety were unfounded, quite the contrary. I do know how anxiety provoking it can be to go through the diagnostic process. I would never intentionally downplay how difficult it can be. I was just thinking about how horrible anxiety is on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. And, for full disclosure, I'm a therapist, and so, biased.

Really wishing for B9 results for you!

Sorry if it feels like we're ganging up on you, but I'm in agreement with MelissaDallas. "And now with a cancer battle looming I am more sleepless than ever trying to plan how to tell my family" is exactly what I meant by crippling. You likely do not have a cancer battle looming. The odds are very slim that you do, at 25, have breast cancer. And you're already trying to plan how to tell your family? I get it that therapy is expensive. MelissaDallas had some good options to check out. You also may be able to find a local community health center (depending on where you live) that offers lower fee counseling. I hope that you get B9 results and are able to move forward!!

Hi, jsn1904. I'm sorry for your dad. Stomach cancer is a very bad type, but I know a lot of people who have suffered and then they have recoveried. Your father can do it surely.

Well, I'm 26. I'm a young woman too, but probably because I see this things a lot (people with cancer), sometimes it worries me.

I had a fibroadenoma when I was 13. It was 7cm (a very big one). It was removed a year later. All of this issue was happened at the same time that my grandma (my mother's mom) was dx with pancreatic cancer. In that time I was a child, and this things didn't bother me (I didn't know about them). In march of 2005, my grandma died of her disease (8 months after she was dx). A month later I had my operation to remove the fibroadenoma (and it was well).

By the way, I didn't mention that my grandpa (my mother's dad) died in november of 2004 (he died by an ictus). So, you could say that my grandma and my grandpa died with 4-5 months apart.

Anyway, right now I looked to that years and I think that my mom had to be very worried, and I feel so bad because of her. Not only because of her mother of her father but due to me too.

And that's not all. My grandma's brothers (my mother's uncles too), died by stomach cancer and by throat cancer. One of my mom's brothers had brain cancer when he was 12. Well... this issue is different, because doctors said that he wouldn't live longer than a few months, and he is 53 right now.

The last year, in june, the oldest one of my father's siblings, died by lung cancer. The last year, another of my dad's siblings, was dx by lung cancer too, though his tumor was removed and he was treated with chemo and radio. He is "well" now, but his physical condition is bad (he always has been skinny). And, well, right about now my father has told me that another of his siblings has been hospitalized due to a throat cancer (very advanced).

Actually, about my uncles' cancer, (my father's siblings) the three I mentioned were men. They led a bad life or, how we say where I live, they are "jacosos" or "yonkies". They used to took drugs a lot, used to drink quite alcohol, keep smoking, etc, well, all of that things that doctors say that we shouldn't do. So, it was a matter of time that they reach their limit.

With all of this, I just want to say that, unfortunately, all of us live surrounded by people with cancer. Someone of them are our relatives, but it doesn't have why bother you. You should live your life, and as much as possible, try to eat a healthy diet and do exercise (this could help you with your fears, especially if you could practice meditation or tai-chi or something like that). Well, that you do this things it doesn't mean that you will never have cancer, but your risk is way lower.

In spite of my family history, I'm trying it doesn't change my life. I want to live well and I'm going to live well.

That's a relief, so glad for you.

Re the anxiety, before my dx, I had 0 foreshadowing, 0 apprehension: half a dozen doctors had looked at the fibro and thought it was just a big fibro... And it didnt it wasnt a ductal, but they found some lobular ( which does not form lumps). It felt so unreal, I nearly thought it was a practical joke

Best wishes, thinking of your dad.