I've been diagnosed with breast cancer this week but having MRI at the weekend to check the size etc (they think about 2cm) before removal and any other treatment. According to ultrasound (no other tests yet) my lymph nodes are clear so they don't think it has spread but I'm terrified that it has or will have by the time treatment is started. This tumour has appeared some time in the last ten months after a clear mammogram so I'm afraid it's really fast growing and will spread. The consultant used "hopefully" it will be fairly straightforward and a more simple surgery. I'm filled with fear constantly that that it will have spread and that I'm going to die, if not in the next three months then in five years and be living with cancer and various treatments until I succumb. I am totally horrified that this has happened to me. I don't get the results of the MRI for nearly two weeks and I don't know how to cope with this hell. I really need some help. I'm not one for pills but feel I need medication to cope with all the fear. I just want someone to tell me it will be fine. I know I'll be having surgery and that's fine but I just want that to be the end of it. I don't know how I can get through this and also now worried I might get other problems as my blood pressure must be through the roof with the stress.
