Hello. I was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 years ago and had a mastectomy and lymph node clearance, chemo & radio, followed by zoladex and tamoxifen. Since then I’ve had a few scares with blood clots in my arteries and a severe bleed that led to polyps being removed from my womb. Largely though I’ve felt healthy and well.
A few days ago I asked my husband to photograph a new bump on my skin right next to my mastectomy scar. It doesn’t hurt but has grown really quickly over a few months. It felt like a new mole but in the pictures it looks pale and in segments, almost like a wart? I’ve attached a photo. My oncologist is seeing me on Thursday for an examination but I am terrified the breast cancer has spread to my skin. I read it can reoccur near surgery scars. Does this look familiar to anyone? I’m sick of being scared of reoccurrence. I’m a positive person but I am worn out with it lurking in the background. Thanks so much.
I’ve got something almost exactly like this on my ‘good’ boob, which a dermatologist deemed to be benign. It’s translucent and almost appears to sit on top of my skin, it appeared quickly some years ago but didn’t subsequently get any bigger. As an aside, I’ve had both melanoma and breast cancer, and there is apparently a link between the two, i.e. having one makes you more at risk of the other, so it pays to be vigillant. x
You’ve got my every sympathy. Fear of recurrence is a big thing. I’ve had two scares with skin lesions. One on my hand that was removed and one on my mastectomy side. Both are not recurrences and the one on the mastectomy site was a cherry angioma and I can’t remember what the one on my hand was, but both were pink raised lesions. It’s worrying but you are doing the right thing getting this checked out as it’s near the mastectomy scar. If I were you I’d see a dermatologist after you’ve seen your oncologists as more than likely this will be skin related rather than BC related.
When I went on Dr Google about skin metastasis it seems that situation would present as a reddened area or lesion. Yours doesn’t look that way but is more opaque.
Getting checked out is very triggering understandably. We always worry don’t we, but in all probability it will be some sort of skin issue.
Good luck.