Awaiting test result

Have I got breast cancer? Appointments and waiting for test results
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Dear All,

Once again, I find myself again in the panic room, the star of a horror film

Following a routine NHS mammogram, I was summoned for further investigations, as they saw a shadow on the scar tissue of my right breast. Fast forward to the appointed day, and I’m treated to yet another round of mammograms and ultrasounds. After engaging in what felt like a symposium on whether it was, or it wasn’t, just innocent scar tissue, they settled on the conclusion that it was a lump. I was then treated to a biopsy, and I’m now anxiously twiddling my thumbs until the results waltz in this Thursday. Bloody hell, the suspense is almost too much to bear.

Flashback to 2006, and I’m replaying my first encounter with the BC – IDC, multifocal, hormonally charged, and with an unexpected guest appearance by lymph nodes. HER- status was confirmed, and I was armed to the teeth with the entire arsenal of treatments for this particular breed of cancer.

And here I stand once again, back in the spotlight of my worst nightmare. Has anyone else been caught in a similarly dramatic plot twist?

Thank you to all

Not so happy-nipple

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Hi @happynipple what a crap thing to happen. I’m still on Letrozole following my first primary a year ago so haven’t had the same experience - yet! Fully expect it to happen one day in the future.

Until you’re told it definitively is, can you tell yourself it most likely isn’t? Probably not but, at the moment, it actually may not be. And if it is, treatments have changed and improved since 2006 and, along with them, recovery and survival numbers. So, you’re going to be ok.

Just wanted to say, hello and you’ve been heard. Please let us know how things go on Thursday.

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