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donnafischer
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10 years ago

Achey boob - starting to think I'm becoming a worry wart

I'm 1 week and 4 days from surgery (wide local excision and sentinel nodes). We've known about the cancer for a bit over two weeks. The lump is small but i get the occasional "ache" in that breast ab...
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Brenda5
Member
10 years ago

Yes its the cancer. Mine hurt more after they'd done both a needle biopsy and a punch biopsy as the bruising and swelling was awful. The cancer did not grow any bigger in 3 weeks, it was just a bit of swelling from the tests. Mind you it might have been nice if the Dr had warned me of that and I didn't have to get my breast nurse to round him up for an appointment to examine, explain the swelling and apparently it was a clot as well.