Multiple masses

[gam73]

Hello all.  

I just found this site tonight.  It looks like there is a lot of great information and what a wonderful community for everyone to help eachother!

I don't know if anyone would have any information for me, but I thought I would try.  I'm wondering if anyone out there has heard of someone having: a prolactinoma (pituitary tumor), a breast tumor (phyllodes tumor) AND an ovarian mass?

I have all of these things and coincidentally they are all on the right side.  The ovarian mass hasn't been determined yet.  I'm having laparoscopy in two weeks to determine what type of mass it is and potentially have it removed.  

The prolactinoma was diagnosed 8 years ago, but in the last month they have discovered the breast tumor and ovarian mass.  I keep asking if all of these are related in any way, but all doctors have said no.  Just a weird coincidence.  I'm just wondering if someone else out there has had these three things and if there is any corrolation at all.

Thank you in advance for any information you can provide!!!

[puppyluve]

I wish I had some information to offer, but I don't. I did however want to wish you the best for your surgery. Patty

[Nursemommy34]

Docs might say they are not related at all, but they are all feminine reproductive masses, arent they?
I'm not to keen on different names of masses, but prolactinoma..isn't that the part of the pituitary that secretes prolactin, aka the lactating hormone, the one that makes a nursing woman secrete milk?  Then a mass in the breast, and cyst on the ovary.  Maybe in the vast expanse of the unknowns concerning cancers and hormones there is some kind of link.  We get hormonal messages from our ovaries too.  The pitiutary sends messages to the ovaries, also.
I hope you can make some sense out of it.
Good luck to you.
Nursemommy