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Steve Williams - 20 Nov 2003 19:43 GMT

Many of you may remember me and my 37 yr. old wife who passed away in
August.

My sister in law (43 and in great shape) just called and told me her mamo
showed a "nodule with calcifications." And her doc is unavailable to today
to explain what's up.

Since my wife never had nodules (DCIS from the start), I'm assuming a nodule
with calcifications is a lump that's spreading?

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Sandy L - 20 Nov 2003 20:16 GMT

> Many of you may remember me and my 37 yr. old wife who passed away in
> August.
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> Since my wife never had nodules (DCIS from the start), I'm assuming a nodule
> with calcifications is a lump that's spreading?

Not necessarily spreading. Microcalcifications are often the first sign
of breast cancer, but can occur in benign lesions. The lump may be
benign or malignant. Neither part alone, nor the combination of the
two, would indicate spread, although they don't prove that spread has
not occurred.

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Tim Jackson - 20 Nov 2003 23:58 GMT

> > Many of you may remember me and my 37 yr. old wife who passed away in
> > August.
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> two, would indicate spread, although they don't prove that spread has
> not occurred.

I believe that even then, most such lumps picked up on mammogram still turn
out to be benign, so it's not time to panic yet.

I don't believe in one or two events making a syndrome, but my mum got a
mastectomy for a 1cm tumour about a year or so after my wife died. Odd
isn't it. The funny thing was that no-one was surprised, it was like we had
been expecting something like that to happen, the other shoe to drop.

Tim Jackson

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Chris O'Connor - 21 Nov 2003 22:46 GMT

Hi, I just went through a
hellacious month due to calcifications,
and they were clustered in a lumplike form
aligned on a ductal pattern, etc.
Do not pull the ripcord.

I found out about a fam. hist. too, in
the middle of all this.

All this junk turned out to be benign.

Hang in there and keep talkin to us.

Chris

> > > Many of you may remember me and my 37 yr. old wife who passed away in
> > > August.
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> Tim Jackson

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Steve Williams - 25 Nov 2003 15:48 GMT

Well, thankfully, further testing showed it was nothing.

I obviously jumped the gun in my fears, but damn, can't say it surprised me.
Other shoe and all...

Thanks all.

> Hi, I just went through a
> hellacious month due to calcifications,
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> >
> > Tim Jackson

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Lbucc - 25 Nov 2003 17:01 GMT

Steve wrote:

>I obviously jumped the gun in my fears, but damn, can't say it surprised me

We all tend to be that way. Once this disease touches your life, it's never
the same again. Just the fact that BC grows in your body for approximately ten
years before detection makes us look back at all those years when we were
oblivious of the cancer we had.

Every little ache and I wonder...

So glad to hear that all's well.

...lisa

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