Suzy2

A few years ago I developed a painful lump just to left of my nipple. I had a needle test, and mamagram done, and the Doctor was at first convinced that it was a cancerous tumour and he said because of where the lump was that I would need to have my breast removed.he seemed so sure at the time. He wanted me in the next week for the surgery and then we could discuss the type of follow up treatment that I would need to have. I asked for a biopsy to be taken first instead(remember so far only a small amount from the needle test had been looked at.) He agreed to this and I had a biopsy done under general anesthetic. After an agonising week of worry, and the byopsy looked at by aparently 3 patholagists because the others couldnt agree,I was told(thank God) that it wasnt cancer after all.

It turned out to be somthing called a "granuloma Mastitus" The Doctor said that under the microscope and whatever else they do with these things,that it did very much resemble cancer. Around the same time I had started taking prednisalone for Ulcerative Colitis and once the lump was drained it disapeared all by its self.

I am telling you all this to show that not all lumps and bumps turn out to be cancer. I am wondering if maybe your lump is somthing similer to what I had.

If anyone reading this has any info on "granuloma Masitus"i would be very interested to read about it. I have never been able to find much information out at all. And I must admit that it did cross my mind that the Doctor might have told me the story about the 3 pathologists and the granuloma being rare,just to cover up that he made a mistake.

Ps, please everyone,"always" get a second opinion.