I have breast cancer and am currently going through chemotherapy. I may well have had an enormous malignant cancer lump in my breast by the time my annual mammogram rolled around, if I had not been so obsessed with finding out exactly what that cyst (that's been around forever!) was up to.
I was biopsied, (quite by coincidence and good fortune) very early, just when my cancer was turning into malignant cancer (it was only .07mm). A month later, when I had surgery, my surgeon removed a 7mm (which is about 1/4 inch) lump of cancer. The mass removed was 10 times the size it had been 27 days before!
So instead of having a 1 and a half inch by 2 inch mass removed in June this year, imagine, at that rate of growth, how big that cancerous lump would be when I go in next April for my annual mammogram?
It is frightening to know how close I came to losing everything. Check your breasts often (by professionals and yourself), question everything and push your doctors to make sure, absolutely sure, that you don't have anything growing in you that could kill you!
Jalanne
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