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How Was Your Breast Cancer Found? With A Mammo, Self Exam or What?

susie09
susie09 CSN Member Posts: 2,930
edited March 2011 in Breast Cancer #1
I think this discussion has been posted before, but, I thought I would ask again how my pink sisters found out they had breast cancer.


♠♣ Susie ♠♣
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  • fauxma
    fauxma CSN Member Posts: 3,577 Member
    #2
    Yearly mammo

    Yearly mammo
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  • mwallace1325
    mwallace1325 CSN Member Posts: 806
    #3
    Yearly mammo
    Yearly mammo too, which a friend had to nudge me to get on time.

    marge
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  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia CSN Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    #4
    Self exam which was then
    Self exam which was then confirmed by mammogram.
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  • 24242
    24242 CSN Member Posts: 1,398 *
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    I found lumps
    But it took 6 months after being told a fibrous cyst that my health was failing me quickly. It wasn't till another lump grew to size of golf ball in a week that I was finally taken seriously and stage 3 was found. I actually have found all my lumps since and after this last one I am up to 5 since my treatments and so far none have come back cancerous. Most doctors don't feel them but they have shown up on altra sounds so they are there. One has to still be checking and monitoring aches and pains and get things looked at if still bothering us after a month or so. I am just having another altra sound too see about the my newest lump found.
    Tara
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  • tgf
    tgf CSN Member Posts: 950 Member
    #6
    24242 said:

    I found lumps
    But it took 6 months after being told a fibrous cyst that my health was failing me quickly. It wasn't till another lump grew to size of golf ball in a week that I was finally taken seriously and stage 3 was found. I actually have found all my lumps since and after this last one I am up to 5 since my treatments and so far none have come back cancerous. Most doctors don't feel them but they have shown up on altra sounds so they are there. One has to still be checking and monitoring aches and pains and get things looked at if still bothering us after a month or so. I am just having another altra sound too see about the my newest lump found.
    Tara

    mammo
    annual mammo ... thank goodness. I'd had a breast reduction about 5 years earlier ... so there's so much scar tissue etc ... I NEVER would have found it myself.

    hugs.
    teena
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  • Double Whammy
    Double Whammy CSN Member Posts: 2,832 Member
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    tgf said:

    mammo
    annual mammo ... thank goodness. I'd had a breast reduction about 5 years earlier ... so there's so much scar tissue etc ... I NEVER would have found it myself.

    hugs.
    teena

    Yearly mammogram.

    Yearly mammogram.
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  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 CSN Member Posts: 4,374 Member
    #8
    CypressCynthia said:

    Self exam which was then
    Self exam which was then confirmed by mammogram.

    My bc was found on a
    My bc was found on a mammogram.


    Jan
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  • camul
    camul CSN Member Posts: 2,537
    #9
    Initial diagnosis was
    Initial diagnosis was through self exam.
    Recurrance was due to pain in abdomin, ribs and hips.
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  • Lighthouse_7
    Lighthouse_7 CSN Member Posts: 1,566 Member
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    camul said:

    Initial diagnosis was
    Initial diagnosis was through self exam.
    Recurrance was due to pain in abdomin, ribs and hips.

    mammo ( which I hadn't done
    mammo ( which I hadn't done in 8 years). Shame on me!
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  • LoveBabyJesus
    LoveBabyJesus CSN Member Posts: 1,679 Member
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    I found it myself, followed
    I found it myself, followed by sono, then biopsy, then MRI, then tears, then surgery, then surgery again, now going to see my Onco for Chemo, then RAD.
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  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 CSN Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #12
    yearly (never missed) mammo
    could not be felt...happy I caught it so early
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  • TraciInLA
    TraciInLA CSN Member Posts: 1,994 Member
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    LoveBabyJesus said:

    I found it myself, followed
    I found it myself, followed by sono, then biopsy, then MRI, then tears, then surgery, then surgery again, now going to see my Onco for Chemo, then RAD.

    Poster girl for mammograms starting @ 40
    I turned 40, and my gynecologist said -- okay, time to go in for your baseline mammogram. And the roller coaster ride began....

    I had 4 tumors total -- they were all so tiny and so deep that no one was ever able to feel them in an exam (and believe me -- by the time I got to surgery, every medical professional in the San Fernando Valley had tried!). Mammography really did well by me.

    So, as far as I (and my oncologist) are concerned, the recent recommendation that women don't need to start mammograms until 50 is a big heaping load of horse you-know-what -- I don't want to even think about what those 4 tumors would have been doing 10 years on.

    Traci
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  • Megan M
    Megan M CSN Member Posts: 3,000
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    Double Whammy said:

    Yearly mammogram.

    Yearly mammogram.

    Mine was found thru my
    Mine was found thru my yearly mammogram too.


    Hugs, Megan
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  • Heatherbelle
    Heatherbelle CSN Member Posts: 1,226 Member
    #15
    I found mine while i was
    I found mine while i was making out with my husband ;) I was also told it was a fibrous adenoma by the 1st Dr i went to. My gynecologist ordered up a mammogram, followed by ultrasound & core biopsy.
    My mom's was found during her annual mammogram. Dr. noticed changes from the previous year.
    *hugs*
    Heather
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  • lori1961
    lori1961 CSN Member Posts: 56
    #16
    Found both of them in each
    Found both of them in each breasts myself mammo's normal...
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  • sbmly53
    sbmly53 CSN Member Posts: 1,522
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    Routine mammo,
    The right breast was done every 6 months due to previous microcalcifations, but this was in the left, done annually.

    Sue
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  • mzl0ve
    mzl0ve CSN Member Posts: 62
    #18
    my DR did not like what she
    my DR did not like what she felt so sent me for my first Mammo at the age of 35, then the ride began
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  • waffle8
    waffle8 CSN Member Posts: 234
    #19
    mzl0ve said:

    my DR did not like what she
    my DR did not like what she felt so sent me for my first Mammo at the age of 35, then the ride began

    Self exam!Mammo missed my
    Self exam!Mammo missed my 2cm lump!
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  • AMomNETN
    AMomNETN CSN Member Posts: 242
    #20
    Found
    A yearly mammo. Noone felt it, not even drs.
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  • sweetvickid
    sweetvickid CSN Member Posts: 459 Member
    #21
    AMomNETN said:

    Found
    A yearly mammo. Noone felt it, not even drs.

    My mother was thru a mammo.
    My mother was thru a mammo. Mine I felt about 2 months before my yearly mammo.
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