A week after breast cancer surgery is it normal to have a thick ridge in breast?

I am assuming it is normal, can't see anything about it in my leaflets or online.#

Ridge is wide and long is it just where tissue was removed?

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  • Most likely.

    Four weeks after my lumpectomy I saw my GP because I had developed a rash on the breast and by the site of the axillary node clearance. When she examined me she said she could feel a lump at the operation  area. On being transferred to A&E the surgical team said there was no such thing but slightly swollen tissue. Perhaps this is what you are observing.

    I would not worry. It takes time for the breast to settle.

  • Thank you, thought so.

    A&E do not know everything.  I recently had bad experience about something else.  They try to convince you and themselves they know all. Ask for second option.  Scar tissue can cause lump, so they didn't know.  I have had such removed from different operation. 

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  • Thank you, thought so.

    A&E do not know everything.  I recently had bad experience about something else.  They try to convince you and themselves they know all. Ask for second option.  Scar tissue can cause lump, so they didn't know.  I have had such removed from different operation. 

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