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Anyone in there 30's found a breast lump that was cancerous?

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pinky36 · 08/03/2008 13:37

Found a lump in my left breast, very hard, and a little tender, keep getting pins and needles like shooting pains! Thing is too scared to go to the docs incase anything serious, and not even told DH!

Any advice or similar experiences?

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FloraPosteschild · 08/03/2008 13:41

Pinky it is probably nothing. BC does not usually hurt

If you don't want to go today, leave it a week and if it is still there then go.

Lumps can come and go with your cycle. But you need to get it checked if it doesn't disappear.

FloraPosteschild · 08/03/2008 13:42

Also are you Pg/ breastfeeding? If so it could just be a blocked duct.

Lulumama · 08/03/2008 13:43

you must get it checked out, if you are too scared to go to the docs, get someone to go with you.. really important any odd lumps are checked out... i went before i had the DCs as felt a lump, doc examined me, all was well... and it got me in the habit if examining my breasts myself, regularly, so i know if anything is there that should not be

please get checked, it is more likley to be nothing sinister at all...

stuffitllama · 08/03/2008 13:45

If there's a further check to be made you can ask for an ultrasound I think rather than a mammogram as first step?

pippypoppypanda · 08/03/2008 18:21

Can I ask a really stupid question but how hard do u press to check for lumps? I am constantly checking and i can feel grisley lumps but in both breasts and only if i press really hard. sorry if i sound like a moron!!!

cmotdibbler · 08/03/2008 19:30

You press gently with the flat of your hand, not with the tips of your fingers - if you press hard you will feel things in normal breasts.

Pinky - please go to your GP. If it is something serious, its not going to be any less serious for waiting, and if it is serious its an awful, awful lot easier to treat earlier rather than later. Tell DH - in fact get him to have a feel - and go to the GP together,

zonedout · 08/03/2008 20:26

i started a thread further down about finding a breast lump (something about freaking out in the title). i am 33 and 5 1/2 weeks pregnant. i went straight to the gp who referred me to a consultant who did a needle biopsy (grim but survivable). i have to go back on tuesday for a scan and to get the results of my biopsy. i am utterly petrified (although my ds is currently quite poorly and my morning sickness has kicked in so some blessed diversion from the fear of tuesday.)

all i know is, whatever the outcome, i went to get checked out as soon as i found my lump and so i know i have done all i can, should the worst happen. please go and get checked out... besides, your fist port of call (the gp) won't do anything (except have a feel) himself so nothing to fear there.

widgypog · 09/03/2008 14:58

I have a lump and had all the tests , it turned out to be a fibroidonoma. I am 33 and have had it for a couple of years. I have LOADS of breast cancer in my family but I am fine. Get it checked , it is much more likely to be something else than cancer

anorak · 09/03/2008 15:04

I have breast cancer and I was told it had been developing for at least 8 years when it was discovered, so I was in my 30s when it started. It is less common than in older women but definitely possible in twenties and thirties.

Get it checked. As cmotdibbler says early treatment is much simpler and less invasive than later. If it is cancer it isn't going to just go away. Get it checked. Get it checked. Get it checked.

smudge2 · 10/03/2008 18:09

Had a lump at 32. Pregnant with third child. Had it biopsied whilst breastfeeding and it was a fibroadenoma that you can get when lactating. I wa sseriously worried about it but always best to get these things checked out. I was told the vast majority of breast lumps in women in their 30s are not cancerous.

zonedout · 10/03/2008 19:01

smudge2, may i ask at what stage of pregnancy you found your lump? i am 6 weeks pregnant tomorrow and going for a scan and my biopsy results with the consultant tomorrow. i would be feeling terrified if i wasn't quite so exhausted and sick...

pinky36, how are you getting along?

smudge2 · 10/03/2008 19:17

I was 17 weeks pregnant when I found it but it took me a month before I was brave enough to tell the gp. It was very scarey and of course made so much worse by the general exhausted and sick feeling of pregnancy. I had a needle biopsy at 36 weeks which was equivical because the cells in your breast are rapidly dividing getting ready to produce milk when you are pregnant. I then had a core biopsy when my ds was 5 weeks old and got the results 2 weeks later. I hope all goes well with you tomorrow and will be thinking of you.

zonedout · 10/03/2008 19:26

thank you, smudge2. that must have been a horrendous time for you. particularly going through the biopsy and then the two week wait with all of those crazy post natal hormones... i cried solidly for the first few months after my ds was born and that was without health worries...

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pinky36 · 11/03/2008 11:56

I plucked up the courage yesterday and booked in to see a nurse at my doctors as i didn't want to see a man, only to be told nurses dont do breast checks now, because of insurance reasons, so i was sent away with lots of leaflets and am still none the wiser! I've now got to book an appointment with the female locum who ive never met before [angry}!

Thanx all mumsnetters for your advice and i will let u know how i get on. x

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