Lumps
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_BishopRic
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_Runtu
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_Jason Bourne
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harmony wrote:Thank you, everyone, for your kind thoughts.
She has an ultrasound scheduled in 10 days. We will know more then. It's frustrating because she is in excellent health, works out regularly, eats right, etc. And she's in a relationship that looks promising, so the timing is so lousy!
Harm
60% of all diagnosed with cancer survive. Most breast cancers are found early and are highly treatable. Even if they have progressed often a reigmne of treatment can be planned to make life livable and even lengthy. But I know it is a scary time. The BIG C is scary.
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_Chap
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Yes, it should be common knowledge that most cancers of the breast are capable of being dealt with safely. My own mother foolishly neglected one and needed a radical mastectomy when she was at length diagnosed - but lived for another twenty years afterwards and died of something quite unrelated.
BUT - you don't need even to start thinking on those lines yet. I am not medically qualified in any way, but my own experience of women in my life who have had investigation of breast masses has made me aware that the very great majority of such masses are utterly benign and non-cancerous. See for instance the material here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/lumps1.shtml
If your daughter is as young as you say, then I hope you will be further reassured by the fact that, as this source says, in women under 40 nine out of ten breast lumps are benign - and, to repeat, even the nasty 10% can mostly be cured so long as they are caught soon enough.
I cannot offer you any prayers, but fortunately in this case at least the great probability is that your daughter will not need more than skilled human aid can provide nowadays! I do hope it will turn out that way for both of you.
BUT - you don't need even to start thinking on those lines yet. I am not medically qualified in any way, but my own experience of women in my life who have had investigation of breast masses has made me aware that the very great majority of such masses are utterly benign and non-cancerous. See for instance the material here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/lumps1.shtml
If your daughter is as young as you say, then I hope you will be further reassured by the fact that, as this source says, in women under 40 nine out of ten breast lumps are benign - and, to repeat, even the nasty 10% can mostly be cured so long as they are caught soon enough.
I cannot offer you any prayers, but fortunately in this case at least the great probability is that your daughter will not need more than skilled human aid can provide nowadays! I do hope it will turn out that way for both of you.
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_cksalmon
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_Boaz & Lidia
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