Hi,
I am sorry to hear that you are worried. The protrusion definitely felt like a bone. I was dismissing it as nothing since I didn’t understand the landscape of a chestwall, minus a breast with bandages recently removed. I went back to the surgeon. He also thought it was a bone. Unfortunately, an emergency biopsy revealed a 4 cm tumor. The surgeon didn’t think he could get it out without neoadjuvant chemotherapy. I had 8 rounds for 6 months measuring it monthly with ultrasounds to monitor if the chemo was working (oncotype score of 23). An MRI prior to surgery showed no tumor but there was 3.6 cm of residue with 3 bad margins. I had to fight tooth and nail for surgery. One tumor board in Alberta, Canada (the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton) said no to surgery. Thank God I never listened to them as there was still 1.2 cm of cancer in my chest wall (that’s 1.2 million cancer cells). Skip the surgery they said and go straight to radiation. I am so never trusted them. Perhaps an MRI could
Give you more information to about the lump. I heard a podcast once about a study in Australia where they gave women MRIs post mastectomy to assess whether of not they were able to remove all the tumor and were thus able to reduce recurrences later on. I am glad that I didn’t have a reconstruction on the day otherwise I would have never seen the protrusion. But apparently my situation of a recurrence just weeks after the surgery is very rare (although the lump was on the CT scan post surgery and they missed it).