Breast Cancer Community

This patient support community is for discussions relating to breast cancer, biopsy, genetics, lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, lymphedema, mammograms, and self exams. If you have been diagnosed, please visit our Breast Cancer: Stage 1 & 2 or Breast Cancer: Stage 3 & 4 Communities. If you are newly diagnosed and don't know your stage info yet, feel free to post here.

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Can a cyst become something else?

Laniejoe

Last year a had a lump come up in my lower left breast and it was diagnosed as a simple cyst, a few months ago I noticed that it had beco...

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Do you think coarse heterogeneous and amporphous calcifications are cancer?

MassGirl55

PROCEDURE 1: Stereotactic core needle biopsy of the right breast: IMPRESSION: 1. Status post right breast stereotactic core needle biop...

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Saw lymph nodes in mammogram with asymmetrical finding

Threemonkees123

So I have been having ocular migraines for about a 2 years which have progressed to left shoulder pain. This pain has gone from discomfor...

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Have bilateral breast lumps with puckering, wondering the cause and worried.

msb9018

Have bilateral lumps, each about 2 inches, each with puckering. I’m in my late 40’s. I know I need them tested, but I’m curious what thes...

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Hypoechonic mass on imaging. Cancer?

Aanky

Very anxious about well defined hypoechonic mass with low level internal echoes 3cm from nipple in the skin subcutaneous tissue s/o infla...

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Lump on top of breasts

Ladyheidi

I have had a sort of long lump in top of my right breast for a very long time, but I can feel something like it in the same place on the ...

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