Help! Breast Cancer Wound

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confusedgirl
confusedgirl Member Posts: 17
edited May 2019 in Not Diagnosed But Worried

My mom now have cancer wound on her right breast. It also starts to bleed. The doctor has advised us to go for biopsy to find our her breast cancer stage however she refused to do it. Reason being is that my uncle had his biopsy done for lung cancer however after few months health went downhill very fast so she has this inclination that biopsy might have triggered something for his cancer to spread fast.

Did you have any experience with breast cancer wounds bleeding? Also do you know if chemo or radiation can be done without undergoing surgery

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  • djmammo
    djmammo Member Posts: 2,939
    edited May 2019

    confusedgirl

    It sounds like you are describing a mass that has eroded through the skin from the inside and that is how this mass was discovered, is this the case? Was she in a nursing home? Or did she already have a diagnosis and she is bleeding from the operative site?

    No, she does not need to worry about the biopsy spreading the cancer, but it would not surprise me if it has already spread on its own at this point.

    She needs to have the mass removed. It will otherwise progress, keep bleeding, and get infected.

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  • confusedgirl
    confusedgirl Member Posts: 17
    edited May 2019

    No operation was done so far and we couldn’t convinced her to get one because she totally declined. We knew that it has gotten worse when the wound started to show up and bled.

    She agreed to undergo treatment but no surgery. Do you know whether this would be possible

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  • djmammo
    djmammo Member Posts: 2,939
    edited May 2019

    confusedgirl

    The primary treatment for breast cancer is surgery. Over the years I have seen people refuse treatment for breast cancer which is their prerogative but your mother's present condition as you describe it requires surgery to stop the bleeding and prevent infection by removing the mass and closing the wound, otherwise it will continue to progress locally and be exrememly difficult to manage. This puts her treatment in a more urgent category.

    If she were my patient I would do my best to convince her and her family to have the mass removed to prevent bleeding and infection as these represent an immediate threat to her health aside from the spread of the cancer. After that she can refuse chemo, radiation, etc if she so desires.


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