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Is It Possible To Have A Prophylactic Mastectomy While Suffering From Intense Pain Caused By Hemangioma?
I had triple negative breast cancer 2 years ago at age 60. Brca 1 and 2 negative. Grade 2, Stage 2a, microcapillary invasive ductal carcinoma. 3.4 cm.
My daughter is age 36. She was born with cavernous hemagioma of left breast. She is disfigured by it. It is the entire breast, under arm and reachs up the back a bit. She's had a clotting problem and had deep vein thrombosis during her 1st pregnancy. She could not take birth control pills as it made terrible pain in the hemangioma.
Well, doctors are having trouble reading her mammograms. We don't know the next step. She wants a prophylactic mastectomy but how will she accomplish that with this horrific hemangioma? TNBC is a younger womans disease. My sister died of it and my daughter's Aunt on her fathers side had E+ Pr+ breast cancer. What can she do?
My daughter is age 36. She was born with cavernous hemagioma of left breast. She is disfigured by it. It is the entire breast, under arm and reachs up the back a bit. She's had a clotting problem and had deep vein thrombosis during her 1st pregnancy. She could not take birth control pills as it made terrible pain in the hemangioma.
Well, doctors are having trouble reading her mammograms. We don't know the next step. She wants a prophylactic mastectomy but how will she accomplish that with this horrific hemangioma? TNBC is a younger womans disease. My sister died of it and my daughter's Aunt on her fathers side had E+ Pr+ breast cancer. What can she do?
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Wed, 26 Feb 2014
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i wonder if something can be done to this hemangioma too. You said cavernous hemangioma of breast. Why cant it be removed along with the breast. Since you have strong family history, prophylactic mastectomy is one option but hemangioma also needs to addressed at he same time. Ask your doctor it this also can be removed
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