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lumps, same area, both breasts

From: anon (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:08:04 -0500 (CDT)

Hi,

I am 29 years old. Three years ago, during my annual exam, my ob/gyn found a lump in both of my breasts in the same spot on each one (close to where the breast connects to the chest close to under arm area). They are about the size of small walnuts. At first he was alarmed and tried to aspirate them. He decided that they were not fluid filled and nothing abnormal came back from that tissue he sent off. To be safe he had me go to a surgeon. This dr. recommended a mamogram. We did that and it found nothing. Then we did an ultrasound and that failed to reflect anything. He decided not to biopsy them. The surgeon watched me for a year and then dismissed me after the lumps didn't change any and instructed me to perform monthly self exam and call if there were any changes.

My ob/gyn says these are most likely benign fibroids, but that he didn't have many patients as young as me with them. He says that concerns him a little. They do get very sore and enlarged when I'm ovulating and right before my period. They have changed size or shape in three years

Fast forward three years later, now my ob/gyn says that he has an older patient who had similar lumps for 20 years and they eventually did turn into cancer. He recommends that I have these biopsied at least every other year. I've never had them biopsied. I am not looking forward to biopsies every two years.

Do these things turn cancerous after so many years? A biopsy every 24 mos sounds like we are really expecting something to happen with them and it also sounds like it might be scarrin or damaging? Won't that cause spots on future mamograms?

Thanks!

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