do i have the symptoms of breast cancer?
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 at
7:09 am
Question posed by : do i have the symptoms of breast cancer?
I’m 17 and I woke up this morning with two very sore lumps in my armpit. I am very nervous cause its very conman in my family. PLEASE HELP ME! I dont want to have breast cancer
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There could be a number of reasons for painful lumps in your armpit – swollen lymph nodes, for example. Lymph nodes swell in response to infection, sometimes a minor infection you don’t even realise you’ve had.
The reason that is least likely is breast cancer.
At 17 your chances of being struck by lightning are twice as high as your chances of having breast cancer. Breast cancer is almost unheard of in under 25s, fewer than 0.1% of those diagnosed with it are under 30 and only 5% are under 40. Most (80%) are over 50.
Me, I was classed as a ‘younger woman’ when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Why? Because I was only 50, which is pretty young for breast cancer.
Most breast and underarm lumps, even in women over 50, aren’t cancer. Over 80% of those considered suspicious enough for biopsy re found to be benign.
And most cancerous breast and underarm lumps don’t hurt – pain is rarely a sign of breast cancer.
Talk to your mum; and if the lumps are still there in two weeks see your doctor. But stop worrying about breast cancer.
You say breast cancer is very common in your family. Hereditary breast cancer is rare – only 5 – 10% of breast cancer cases are hereditary, and they are due to a rare inherited faulty gene. Breast cancer diagnosed after the age of 50 is even less likely to be hereditary.
With one in eight women diagnosed with breast cancer over a lifetime of 80 years or so, it’s a rare family that’s unaffected by breast cancer, especially among older members.
But even in those rare cases where breast cancer is hereditary within a family, the chances of it affecting a teenager are still just about zero.
This is a sign of infection or hormone fluctuation, not breast cancer.
My honest opinion, cancer can spread to lymph nodes. My mother-in-law is a breast cancer survivor and when they operated to remove her right breast…they also found the cancer in some of her lymph nodes under her right armpit. They had to remove the lymph nodes too. Now she is completely cancer free.
Since you said that breast cancer runs in your family…it is possible for you to get it (I’m not saying you already have it.) My kind suggestion: tell your mother to take you to the doctor and get checked. It’s better to know for sure than to take a chance with your life. GOOD LUCK and GOD BLESS.
If you use an antipersperant deoderant then you could be allergic to that.