Im waiting on breast biopsy results, i get them on monday, the waiting is just dreadful, sometimes your gut feeling tells you what you know but this time i just dont know! Anyone feel or felt the same?
Hi,sorry about your news,I have the same diagnose but mine is DCIS high grade,i have done one surgery but the margins came positive si next week will do mastectomy ,hoping for the best,scary times for us but we need to be strong and we are lucky to have a pre cancer prognose.
It is cancer? Not pre cancer? Am confused xx what opp have you had, treatment etc, when and where did u find you lump and how long did u have to wait to get sorted...sorry for questions..head all over like you xxxxx
Haha you need nipples to hang tussles on xxxx xxxxx I am confused...he said lumpectomy......but he removing all breast tissue to chest wall and nipple? Sound more like full removal? Xx
Your story has given me some hope on large lumps....On Monday after being briefly looked at & examined by consultant he said my lump was a cyst & he wasn't concerned. He sent me down to breast screening to have a mammogram & ultrasound and said they would probably drain it. I felt immediate relief but once I'd had the mammogram & was called into ultrasound she said that she was concerned by the lump & proceeded with a biopsy of the lump & swollen lymph nodes under my arm . The consultant was surprised to see me back at the breast clinic & said that it had taken him by surprise. He said lump looked very suspicious & was more likely to be something than not. He wanted to see me back for results on Thursday but he was completely fully booked until Monday! He said there maybe a cancellation but if not Monday. I have obvs been thinking the worse. My lump is large but everything you read states more than 2cm is large! I've convinced myself that they won't be able to remove my breast as the lump is too big & that every ache & pain in my body is now cancer spreading throughout me. Im trying to be strong but I already suffer with anxiety so im not so good at positive thinking ♀️ I've been researching private cancer care, I wasn't even sure if it was something you can do but I guess when I get my results this is something that I should ask about then?
The DCIS is precancer or stage 0 cancer,thats my diagnose,bit the cancer cell might be grade 1,2 or 3 .I have grade 3 which is not good so I high risk that the cancer might come back.
I have done one surgery,not suscesfull ,will do another one soon mastectomy.After that I dont know what the treatment will be ,it depense.
I found a small lump close to the niple on ky left breast in July and my gp refered me in one week,and I had the surgery after 2 weeks so really quick.
Am so glad you got sorted quickly...I was seen in Dec last year. They called me in August said they mislaid my paperwork...I am grade 2 had excisional biopsy 3rd Sept...9 month later
Now another removal of all breast tissue and nipple and lymph nodes on 1st Oct I had to wait they apologised xx we are all scared
Hope it hasn't spread xx won't know ubtil 2 week after removal of everything probably around 14th Oct x
Just stick then on no one needs to know whats under them tassels my lovely lol yeah it is all a bit confusing they dont give easy answers thats fof sure, look at me a week past Monday results are clear from what we tested but due to changes we want to double check; did that stereotactic biopsy put another clip in, i spoke to the consultant and i said what do you think it is! She said at the monent its a mystery, i asked the radiologist when she took an xray before the biopsy and she said they think a radial scar, but they told me on the phone when i got my results it wasnt, so a medical mystery just now, I'll find out on Monday when i go to the clinic, i said to the consultant on Thursday so the results for the first biopsies were fine but i needed a more detailed biopsy because it wasnt where you needed to be looking at? And she said yes hence why they have put another clip in!! She said we are hoping worst case scenario its a radial scar but we dont know, so i know where confusion comes from because they said it wasn't a Radial scar! So im still in the dark until i go on Monday.
Both of my cancers were in the lower right quadrant of my breast. I also found a larger lump in my left breast six months after lumpectomy. Fortunately, this was benign, but when I found a second lump in my right breast a year after my lumpectomy, my surgeon was happy to carry out a double mastectomy. I have previously stopped breathing under anaesthetic, so he was prepared to do this in order to prevent another surgery if the other breast later became cancerous.
I was advised to have radiotherapy after my lumpectomy, but my first surgeon refused to test my other breast. As a result, I refused to have this treatment while the problem with my other breast was being ignored. When I saw another surgeon 11 months after my lumpectomy, I was referred to see two eminent researchers in radiotherapy. One gentleman told me that I might as well try it still, but the other was quite insistant that there was no point in doing this when there was longer than 3 months from diagnosis. He made a better argument for his stance, so I followed his advice.
I took Tamoxifen for the first year after my lumpectomy and changed to Letrozole after I had my double mastectomy. I took this for 6½ years and stopped taking this in July 2017. I had 6 lymph nodes removed first time around. Second time, my surgeon intended to take a sample from my left
breast, but only got fatty tissueafter my mastectomy. It is normal to test the lymph nodes, so please don't worry about this, as yiou are better to know if there is any spread rather than remaining in ignorance.
I didn't have reconstruction post-mastectomy, as this would have meant another general anaesthetic and, the risk just wasn't worth it. I manage well despite this and, use a selection of prostheses for different purposes.
