For those who are living with the decision of having a mastectomy or a lumpectomy, it’s not an easy choice. I remember that I knew what I wanted. I wanted to keep my breast if possible, but I also didn’t know if that was going to be a choice.
Category: Breast Cancer Treatment
A shocking diagnosis: Cancer
That fresh morning in October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month, by the way) I had the phone call from my doctor’s assistant. He said that the Doctor wanted me to go to his office to discuss my results. That didn’t happen the year before. I knew then that he had bad news.
My Second Biopsy: The One With The Bad Outcome
After my first biopsy, (the one I mentioned in my first post), I went the next year in the very same month to have my mammogram. This time, the mammogram had another surprise. My previous lump had disappeared, but I had new calcifications in a different place in the same breast. I didn’t even know what “calcifications” were. The radiologist explained they were like pencil-size dots and that I needed a biopsy.
My First Biopsy, The Beginning…
This is how everything started. This is how my story with breast cancer began.
I started getting mammograms relatively young. I remember that when I was 39 years old, I had my first one. My OBGYN told me that he felt a lump in my right breast and that he wanted me to have a mammogram. After I had it, the radiologist recommended that I continue to watch it. I really didn’t even feel it. But I guess it was better to be safe.