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Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer  What is this ? |
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Hi there. My name is Mary Anne, and I was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I found my lump myself back in either late July or early August. I had just been to the women's center on May 11th this year and they saw some calcifications on my left breast but compared them to previous films and so no change so they did not pursue it any further. What I found in late July early August was on my right breast. I was just taking a nice hot bath because I have scoliosis really bad (curvature of the spine) and a nice hot bath makes my hip and back feel better. It hurts me all the time and has for about 5 years now. Anyway, I was getting ready to shave under my arm and when I was soaping up under my arm I passed over my right breast and there was an apparent lump there right there on top kinda to the right. I was alarmed of course. I called and made an appointment to go back to the Dr. and went about 2 weeks later. That was in September. When I went back to the Center for another exam the Doctor examined me and said agreed with me that the lump did not show up on the mammogram back in May. Then I was scheduled to go back to the women's center for another mammogram. On October 13th I went and had more mammograms, a sonogram and some high resolution scans. Then the lady that reads them came in and told me she was going to have my Doctor schedule me an appointment with a breast specialist for a biopsy. They did two biopsy's. One core sample, and a needle aspiration of the lymph gland was done on the 18th of October. On the 23rd on October they called me with the results. I have at least stage 2 breast cancer with lymph node involvement. It started in the milk duct if that makes any sense. This is all new to me so I will learn as I go. I now have an appointment with an Oncologist on November 5th. My breast surgeon wants to do chemo first and then surgery to remove the lump with the hope that the chemo will shrink it and remove at least 5 to 6 nodes. After that I will probably have radiation too. This is like a piano fell from the sky and hit me in the head. I am still out of it.
