Found a lump and pain with implants

Hello, 10 years ago I had Breast implants, after this time my mum, grandma and two aunties have had breast cancer! Last Wednesday I started feeling pain in my left breast and I found a lump. The pain has spread to my armpit and is really really sore! My doctor found the lump straight away and send me for an urgent referral which is tomorrow. On the referral she wrote suspected cancer which as you can imagine was really upsetting. However I am really grateful that I got my appointment so fast.
What I wanted to ask is has anyone attended the breast clinic with implants and does this differ to a lady without them? What actually happens at these appointments?

I’m obviously really scared and I’m not sleeping at all. Everyone keeps telling me it will be fine however I feel like this almost invalidates how I feel. 

thank you so much for listening x

  • Hi PennyD_1404,

    Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry you haven't received a reply up to now - it looks like you had your appointment today, so I hope that it went OK and that you were able to get the answers to your questions.

    Do let us know how you got on, and we're here if you need to speak to others at all - there will be many others here who have gone through or may be going through something similar.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
    Cancer Chat Moderator