Hi everyone.  I'm forty and found a small pea size lump in my right breast about a month ago.  I was menstruating so left it a couple of weeks to see if it would go away, it didn't! I went to GP, saw the advanced healthcare practitioner who immediately found the lump and put me on a two week referral.  My appointment was on Friday.  The Initial  consultant (a man) said he wouldn't be surprised if it was nothing as all he could feel was a slightly denser area (was he just managing my anxiety, who knows?).  I had a mammogram which apparently doesn't really show anything significant, so they gave me an ultrasound.  I was laying on the bed and a different consultant, a woman, told me she was pretty sure it was cancerous and would take biopsies, which she did.  I then saw the male consultant again, and he told me it was 12mm although he thought it felt slightly larger and they didn't think from the ultrasound there was any spread to the lymph's.  I'm petrified and don't know what to think.  I have two children, 10 and 12 and am between feeling like that's it and I should just go quietly, and fighting it.  I lost my dad to cancer, we battled for three years before he died of sepsis.  I really don't want to put my family through that as I know how exhausting it is! Any advice.  Love to you all going through this, god bless x