Hi I am part way there but I have some questions re IDC. My biopsy came back this afternoon but the receptionist told me that it was in the "in tray"and the dr had gone home for the day grrrrrr
I found a largish breast mass/lump, quite by accident with the flat of my hand. it is near my breastbone so inner side of breast. I ignored it initally as all the pics on dr google showed the outside of breast and armpit. MIne is inner side near breastbone, I also didnt know you had lymph nodes there too 😞 I have not had a mammogram for 6 years as I was wrongfully informed, after becoming a paraplegic and unable to stand, that it could not be done in a wheelchair. I had ultrasound and 3 core biopsies (3 due to size) am waiting on biopsy result tomorrow. I have done a lot of reading and it seems the most common are DCIS or LCIS. It is too far away from the nipple (about one inch from breastbone) to be ductal, so am assumingng LCIS. But everything I have read says that it is usually before menopause (I am 55 so passed) and usually has NO symptoms or any palpable lump? (mine is very palpable) and that it isn't really cancer (phew). All I know so far is that the ultrasound report findings were " likely carcinoma, 3 o'clock right breast, approx 20 mm, poorly defined and fixed,. The information all says it is usually found incidentally through a mammogram or tests on the breast for another reason, and that it is NOT usually a palpable lump - mine is so palpable I found it by accident and with the flat palm of my hand. The literature all seems to say that LCIS is usually only found secondary to some other test.
What I want to find out, is there anyone out there that has either DCIS or LCIS that HAD found it as they had a clearly palpable lump (about 20mm or a twenty cent piece), I am so scared now that it is invasive lobular? please make me feel better and tell me yours was quite palpable!
