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Re: blood transfusion/breast trauma lead to breast cancer?

From: Kathleen (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:50:40 -0600 (CST)

I was in a major car accident in 1999, at the age of 42. I needed surgery, which required my accepting 3 ccs of plasma. I also had major breast trauma from the seat belt, which took over a month to heal. Seven months later, I had a routine mammogram, which showed a solid mass. Two weeks later, I was diagnosed with a very small cancer. Had a lumpectomy for the -1/4" tumor. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you think a breast trauma can lead to a cancer? I know that the stress can accelerate the tumor cells that everyone has in their body, but can a direct trauma do it, too? Also, there was an article in the JAMA and NEJM that two different surgeons contacted a cancer via a cut on their hands while performing an operation on a patient who later was diagnosed with a cancer? So, does this mean that blood transfusions can possibly be blamed for some cancers? That's what the JAMA is wondering. I am curious to know if either of these two possibilities has happened to other recently-diagnosed breast cancer patients. Incidentally, in December of 1999, my mother had major surgery, which required blood transfusions. Three months later during a routine mammo she, too, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Weird, right? So, please write to me at kcoll57@yahoo.com. Thanks

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