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So I’m about to have a mammogram biopsy and ultrasound this week after finding a large lump in my breast and the reason why I went looking for this as a few months ago I could smell a different smell coming from my chest . At the time I thought it was some sort of different bacteria creating a different kind of a smell. I am like you in terms of having a very sensitive nose. I know I can smell things that other people can’t exactly like the gas leak that I smelt in a friends place when they’ve come out and done testing and cannot detect it exactly the same as you!! I’ll find out my results hopefully in the next 10 days. Let’s see if my sensitive nose is picked anything up.
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I look forward to it. I had written that my dog would sniff my right under arm all the time, and I wondered if she could smell cancer in my right breast. Since my DMX on July 9th she occasionally will sniff my right under arm... and as time has gone by since the mastectomy, she sniffs it less and less - and in all instances not with the same sort of intensity. I mentioned this to my lymphedema specialist and she thought it was interesting... and does believe that some dogs can smell cancer. I'm going to follow up with my local branch of paws with the cause and see if there's a formal way to test your animal and offer mine as a service animal. It would be great if we could create a study to test this phenomenon; I believe in data driven science and it would be way cool to substantiate any claims. Who knows maybe someone could come up with a chemical litmus test if we understood what odor, aka chemical or molecular signature, a canine was picking up on? Or maybe the molecule would be linked to what we could find in a simple blood test, etc....
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Be calm and go in and get that testing done! Be sure to let the tech know about the smell - although they probably won't believe you! If anything shows up, you'll next have an ultrasound or they will schedule you for that. My breast was itchy, swollen larger, and I would wake up at night with a prickly sensation as well. When I pointed larger breast, I was told by my regular doctor that that's normal - again, be persistent...this is you who we are talking about and you are very important! Let me know how it goes...I'm rooting for you.