How long can you go undetecting breast cancer?
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at
5:21 am
Tweety B asked:
I have had a swollen or enlarged area in my underarm for at least a couple years. There is some types of differences between the two under arms. Like lump or hardened area in the one that looks swollen.But cant feel anything in the breast..reason i havent gone to Dr.
I am 32 and haven’t seen or felt any significant growth or change in the swelling or “lumps”. But am still worried.
I have had a swollen or enlarged area in my underarm for at least a couple years. There is some types of differences between the two under arms. Like lump or hardened area in the one that looks swollen.But cant feel anything in the breast..reason i havent gone to Dr.
I am 32 and haven’t seen or felt any significant growth or change in the swelling or “lumps”. But am still worried.
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Go get a mammogram, and tell them what you just told me…. I’m not as young as you, but i sort of had the same thing. Only my “symptom” was just a little dimple near my armpit. It was so small, I never paid it any attention. The tumor was discovered by accident, as part of the mammogram, and it was pretty big: 3 cmm x 7cmm. I never FELT anything, and there was nothing near my breast itself at all. In fact, none of either breasts was ever removed.
You go. being checked out and it being nothing — or even something — is better than ignoring it.
Don’t panic or anthing but get a mammogram. It’s not good to have lumps where your lymph nodes are located.
HI…
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and through the early detection, the survival chance are high and it can avoid to remove the whole breast. We must aware that normally it will happen on women over 50 years old and four in five women are diagnosed with breast cancer with no known risk factors. It is a very dangerous issue which sometimes most of the women are not notice about it.
Early detection is the best defense and also a better chance for successful treatment and surgery. There are 3 ways to detect breast cancer early which is self-awareness and mammography.
1.Self-awareness: Women who chooses to perform breast exams should have a correct technique to performs the clinical examinations. If find out any changes to their breast, they should promptly report to their doctor and not to worry too much because lumps are not necessarily abnormal and most lumps are detected and tested are not cancerous.
2. Mammography: Mammography is the simple, low-close breast x-ray examination. It is one of the ways to detect breast cancer before the lump can feel. It is done by two plastics plate that placed in each of the breast by using a x-ray machine then gently pressed and some of the women will feel discomfort during the compression. It is encourages women over 50 years old do the mammography.
Save your life by screening tools which should be continue for women either over 50 years old or younger in order to maintain a good health condition, prevent the breast cancer and survive from it.
Thanx…
It would be very rare, but not completely impossible, to palpate axillary lymph nodes years before you could palpate a mass in the breast if you had breast cancer and less than 2% of all breast cancers occur in women under 35. I do have to say that waiting until you find a mass in the breast is not a very logical or safe thing to do. If this is cancer it does not necessarily have to be breast cancer just because it is under the arm. If it is cancer you should have developed other symptoms by now and noted changes in this area. Either way you have had this too long to not get it checked out.
My sister in law was 33 when she got breast cancer. Don’t you see an OBGYN on a regular basis? Wouldn’t you tell her about ti. This is not right some how. Tell your Dr about it for heaven sake