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nigela
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April 27, 2014, 10:45:38 AM »
Feeling worried as latest mamo shows up calcification in right breast. report says no further checks necessary as they can tell its benign. trouble is I know of someone who had this then the following year it was full blown BC. How can they tell just from mamo that its ok. Anyone else had this-I am 52. also post meno.
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April 27, 2014, 10:47:23 AM »
also meant to add that, I have been having mamos since my thirties due to benign breast lumps. However that was the opp breast. Now this one has pained and itched for 2 years now. The pain after the mamo lasted 2 weeks even.
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Trey
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April 27, 2014, 01:53:47 PM »
Often cancer is painless. I have now five micro calcifications which suggest cancer. They were benign. The way the cancer specialist in breast cancer, explained it to me, was that large calcifications are from injury or infection and the body walls them off. Small micro calcifications are the ones that need to be watched. After one has five micros a biopsy is suggested in US.
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April 28, 2014, 07:10:09 AM »
Calcifications are very common in older women- they are a sign of age, and possibly minor injury to the breast.
I have a few in each breast. I've seen them on the X-ray as I'm given them to keep.
Tiny clusters of calcification can be a sign of breast cancer but they look very different. Clusters look like grains of sand all grouped together, whereas large calcifications look like large pin heads scattered around the breast.
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nigela
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April 28, 2014, 12:40:39 PM »
Thanks for replies. where do you get your mamos done to get given them to keep? Must be good as you too can compare them.
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April 28, 2014, 12:58:56 PM »
Hi nigella,
I had calcification in my right breast 8 years ago when I was 45 and just started on hrt.
It turned out to be benign and was told it would disappear in time and it has now gone.
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nigela
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April 28, 2014, 01:51:13 PM »
Hi Dyan oh that is good to hear I didn't know it could go!
Nigela
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April 29, 2014, 04:37:47 PM »
Hi Nigela- I have them done privately in London. My gynae refers me as part of my overall 'MOT' screening. I have to pay - once every 18 months- 2 years. They used to give me the actual X-rays but they now put it on a disk - newer technology.
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My micro calcifications were much larger than pinhead size and my macro calcifications were significantly larger than the micro. A cancer radiology specialist physician was very clear that isolated macro were generally safe, whereas multiple micro needed to be carefully watched.
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