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can breast lumps be related to other lumps?
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can breast lumps be related to other lumps?
by Tabitha29, Jan 27, 2003 12:00AM
I was 27 when i found my first lump. I was mad with panic. I quit smoking that same day and practically kissed my breast goodbye. I didn't want to break up the twins yanno? I went to the dr and was told it was probably just a cyst that needed to be drained and was sent to the hospital for an ultrasound. When the technician said it wasn't fluid filled i paniced even more. They sent me straight in to get a mammogram and sent me home. I got a call a few weeks later saying that they wanted to do a biopsy because the mammogram didnt come back conclusive one way or the other as to the nature of what the lump was. The biopsy was done with a needle and was relatively painless. The dr called me back a couple weeks later and said it was intracanalicular fibroadenoma and that it would probably shrink on its own once it reached 2 cm. i was extremely skeptical but lo and behold it shrunk.
Now it's 2 years later and the lump is back.. that is if it is the same lump. Same general area as the first one but this one is bigger.
Is it normal for these things to just shrink away to nothing and then come back? Is this indicative of what i have to go through in the future; recurring lumps? I have had a cyst (fibrous and solid) removed from my labia majora as well. Are these two things related? and should i anticipate another cyst on my labia or other part of my body?
Now it's 2 years later and the lump is back.. that is if it is the same lump. Same general area as the first one but this one is bigger.
Is it normal for these things to just shrink away to nothing and then come back? Is this indicative of what i have to go through in the future; recurring lumps? I have had a cyst (fibrous and solid) removed from my labia majora as well. Are these two things related? and should i anticipate another cyst on my labia or other part of my body?
Doctor's Answer
by CCF-RN,MSN-JS, Jan 27, 2003 12:00AM
Dear Tabitha29, Fibroadenomas usually disappear on there own in approximately half of the cases, and could develope again. However, a new lump should be checked out to make sure that this is what it is. That doesn't mean you'll have to go through the biopsy etc. but they would want to evaluate. There is probably no relationship between the breast cyst and the cyst on the labia.
