Just got back from the nightingale centre following a lump I found 2 weeks ago. Had an ultrasound and measured a suspected fibroadenoma but to be sure had to have a fine needle aspiration. Results came back in less than half an hour. Fibroadomas measured at 1cm, the consultant couldn’t believe how I managed to find it as it was small and quite deep, she said I should make a job out of checking women’s boobs lol
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Thanks x
Hi there , what a relief for you I am sure. Just shows about being vigilant can detect these lumps. There should be more promotion about self examination especially with younger women.
However just a warning to anyone else reading this that not all cancers present as a lump as mine did not. It was growing as a long thin thread in a breast duct. Even as a trained nurse I had no idea this could happen and had been self examining for years and this was my fifth mammogram when they found it. Even the consultant said it would be a waste of time examining me as she would not be able to feel anything.
I just so grateful we have the mammogram programme in this country for women over fifty and infact it should be made available earlier than at fifty.
Emmaxangel , I hope you get on well and celebrate the news as the stress must of been awful even though outcome was good news? . When it gets to you having a routine mammogram i am sure you will attend but believe it or not a lot of women just dont turn up , how crazy is that?.
Best wishes , Katy.
Can i just add that mammograms aren’t foolproof and my lump didn’t show up. I had become complacent and was scared to examine my breasts. Even if I had I don’t think I would have identified the lump that was later found by a very astute doctor giving me a clinical exam (family history clinic). She was sure it was nothing but arranged an ultrasound to be extra careful. The ultrasound was pretty conclusive and along with biopsy I was diagnosed woth breast cancer.
I feel very lucky that the lump was found but from now on will be asking for ultrasound in addition to mammograms which I found out later, miss 20% of tumours!
Hi Marie, in that case I shall as well! However the mammogram in my case did pick up a rare form of breast cancer and I am thankful it did . They did an ultrasound after and I could see myself the area when it was homed in on. What was scary which a lot of women say on this website is the tumour is invariably much bigger than is detected when they have their initial operation.
Still I an thankful for living in the 21st century when diagnosis and treatments have never been better and Emmaxangel obviously has the knack of detection too! Katy.
They currently don’t do an automatic mammogram programme for the under 50s because younger women’s breast tissue is more dense than older women, and a mammogram can’t ‘see’ through it. But an ultra sound can. Maybe one day they will find a way of giving younger women a regular test. Although I think most don’t believe it to be ‘cost effective’ due to the fact that breast cancer is supposed to be more rare in younger women.
Hi Emma So pleased your test results showed fibroadenoma. You did right having it checked out. Many young women are frightened to have lumps bumps and breast changes checked out and I hope your post shows that all women can get reassurance from having ultrasound /mammograms taken. These stay on your hospital records should you ever need to go back in years to come and the BC team can compare any changes. All to the good. Kathy x
I have really lost confidence in imaging, and am resolved to have a right prophylactic mastectomy when I get my left breast reconstruction.
My left breast tumour was measured to be approx 4x3 cm after my original diagnostic mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. My WLE at 8cm removed had positive margins on two sides, leading to my mastectomy. This infers that at least half of my tumour was invisible to the imaging I had, as it was “microscopic” in nature.
I have a sneaky suspicion that on removal of my right breast they will find cancer that is as yet undetectable by mammo and ultrasound imaging!