@Sister Yes, you were very fortunate. I'd had a regular Breastscreen mammogram (no evidence of cancer) nine months before I noticed my nipple receding and then a slight distortion in my left breast. GP got me an appt the next day at Wesley Breast Clinic - mammo & tomosynthesis showed nothing. On ultrasound it was barely perceptible. 15 biopsies. Report suggested 8-9 cm IVC. It ended up being 12 cm. So my daughter, nieces and anyone else I can influence have ultrasounds as well as mammos now. Mine had probably been there for years. It was certainly there before the Breastscreen mammo because in the second half of that year, I'd often had a sixth sense that something was not right in my body. Not unwell; but just not right. Then when I got the clear Breastscreen result, I thought, oh well it wasn't that, anyway. Wrong.
