My mom & a sil had BC with in the same year & both did well with lumpectomy & radiation.
I hope yours is just a simple thing , that can be fixed easily --or nothing at all {we hope, hope ,hope}.

Thanks everyone!

Let's pray and hope it's NOTHING!

(((((( hugs ))))))) everyone!

And oh, I had spoken with my mom,
and she's also hoping it would be
"nothing" ... after all, she will be
the one who will be taking me down
there coming up this Friday ....

After all, she's been keeping me from
falling apart here!

Keeping you in my prayers, southie. Praying its NOTHING!!!

I do so hope that all will be well Sharon.

Please know that I'm keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

.........

Well, I went in - not so "lovely" news, had
to have more mammograms done, and "it"
was still there. They showed me the X-Rays,
and it was deep, but comparing with the one
from October, it appears to "maybe" be benign,
but I have to return back in 6 months to do
all of this all over again!

I had something similar Sharon.

I had a spot that showed up on mammogram, and I had multiple attempts to have the area biopsied but they all failed because "it" was so very deep against my chest wall, and very difficult to get to.

I ended up having the "lump" removed in a surgical operation and it turned out to be a benign area of calcification.

I hope that your's has a similar outcome, but I can certainly understand that you may be feeling a bit stressed by it all, because I was too..

Hi Jo Mar
After reading your post I needed to comment on a lumpectomy and radiation.

Fifteen years ago my sister in law had a lumpectomy and radiation. She now has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. The cells have been tested and they are NOT the same cells as her breast cancer therefore, it is not a metastasis, but a separate cancer. She happens to be a "healer" for people who are surviving breast cancer (she has a website however she is now working on her lung cancer). The point is that after further research, she has found that many women who have radiation to the chest wall for breast cancer have developed lung cancer later on. In fact, her lung that is affected is on the same side as her breast cancer and her radiation treatment.

Since lung cancer is hard to detect until late stages unless you are lucky, (does not even show up in a xray) it is very important for women who have had radiation for breast cancer be monitored frequently for development of lung cancer.

I hope this information helps some people and please spread the word.

Lisa