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

susie09

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 ♠♣

fauxma

Yearly mammo

Yearly mammo

mwallace1325

Yearly mammo
Yearly mammo too, which a friend had to nudge me to get on time.

marge

CypressCynthia

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

24242

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

tgf

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

Double Whammy

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.

survivorbc09

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

camul

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

Lighthouse_7

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!

LoveBabyJesus

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.

disneyfan2008

yearly (never missed) mammo
could not be felt...happy I caught it so early

TraciInLA

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

Megan M

Double Whammy said:

Yearly mammogram.

Yearly mammogram.

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


Hugs, Megan

Heatherbelle

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

lori1961

Found both of them in each
Found both of them in each breasts myself mammo's normal...

sbmly53

Routine mammo,
The right breast was done every 6 months due to previous microcalcifations, but this was in the left, done annually.

Sue

mzl0ve

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

waffle8

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!

AMomNETN

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

sweetvickid

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.