What you need to know about finding Breast Cancer early

Don’t let this happen to you! Last Friday at 5:30 pm a colleague of mine showed me a breast ultrasound on a 30 year old woman he had received for reporting.  Thinking that it was going to be a routine normal exam in a young woman with dense breasts,  I was shocked and dismayed to see a 3.6 cm speculated mass with very abnormal calcifications staring back at me on the computer monitor.  Not only was this mass present but there were very abnormal looking lymph nodes in her axilla which meant that it had likely spread. My first reaction was “How could she have let it grown so large and not addressed it sooner?” Perhaps she was told or had read that it was nothing to worry about in women of her age and that lumps are usually due to fibroglandular