moss Also remember this isn't a representative bunch in terms of what you find out at a Breast Clinic. I know it is difficult not to think the worst but the majority of lumps they investigate are benign. My closest friend must have gone three times before her lumpy painful breasts were cured by menopause.
Herrena I would just reinforce what the others had said. Your daughter won't really take anything in apart from few key traumatic words, above all you can help her by listening and taking notes. I was diagnosed 11 years ago so they may be more sophisticated now but I was given the overall grading and the grading of how aggressive the tumour was and how strongly hormone positive (Estrogen + and Progesterone+) and also the presence of Her 2 Neu All these things help them determine the treatment, what mix of surgery, hormone therapy, chemo, radiology and Hepstatin . That is a lot to take in. I would also not be absolutely assuming a Lymph node isn't involved, my Consultant didn't think it likely and certainly couldn't feel anything, but it showed up on the PET scan.
The genetic testing is very expensive, one of my friends had what you would think was a definitive history, grandmother, mother, aunt all died of it, but she had to pay to have it done herself. As she said for the amount she paid to have her blood sent to the US she could have flown there herself. It came back negative but the Counsellor said that she was sure there was a BC gene in the family, it just wasn't one they had discovered yet.
Gig After ten years abstaining during the week except for special occasions 
smee not long enough, we all miss it. I naively thought I could study part time but once writing an essay, or now chapter, you do need to focus. My DDs used to say I became an essay monster, but I don't necessarily think it a bad thing now they need to be essay monsters....