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What Could Lumps During Breast Cancer Suggest?

I'm a 37 year old female, 5'4 & 295lbs. I was diagnosed with HER 2 positive breast cancer last year. I had 6 rounds of Chemo and have been doing Herceptin since Oct 2010. I had a partial masectomy in April 2011. I have recently found a lump in the left breast but have been told not to worry that it is probably just a cyst. I was also told the same thing last year. Should I get a second opinion.
Fri, 20 Mar 2015
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Hi! thanks for writing to us sharing your health problem!

After going through your problem of lump in the left breast following partial mastectomy and chemotherapy for HER-2-NEU positive breast cancer, I must consider following possibilities:

1. a benign cystic lesion could be fibrocystic changes in the breast tissue

2. some low grade chronic infection

3. hematoma or suture granuloma

4. cancer

You just need a needle biopsy for confirmation which is itself a kind of second and final opinion; please ask your treating doctor today about this and revert back to us with feedback.

regards,
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What Could Lumps During Breast Cancer Suggest?

Hi! thanks for writing to us sharing your health problem! After going through your problem of lump in the left breast following partial mastectomy and chemotherapy for HER-2-NEU positive breast cancer, I must consider following possibilities: 1. a benign cystic lesion could be fibrocystic changes in the breast tissue 2. some low grade chronic infection 3. hematoma or suture granuloma 4. cancer You just need a needle biopsy for confirmation which is itself a kind of second and final opinion; please ask your treating doctor today about this and revert back to us with feedback. regards,