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@darack
It sounds to me like the side effects of radiation. My breast was swollen and kind of lumpy for a few months. The apoptosis doesn’t stop right after radiation but continues to kill cancer cells for a while. I pray you get good results next week. Hugs.
@worried1111
It was so lucky that you found the cancer lump after the surgery! I think in your case the surgeon missed the cancer in the chest wall. If the cancer grows that quickly in 2 weeks, it would have spread to other organs within a month. I’m not sure if MRI can see cancer in pectoral muscles. How are you doing now? Are you completely recovered from BMX? Hugs.

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@myoga Thank you! I was super lucky to find it (although it did not feel that way at the time). In my case all the stars in the universe lined up. If I had a breast reconstruction immediately after surgery I would have never have seen the cancer (there was no plastic surgeons available). A new breast cancer team in a different province and 6 months of chemo later i had surgery to deal with that lump. There was 3.6 cm and 3 bad margins (posterior, inferior, and superior) - none of this was seen on the MRI. I had to lobby two tumor boards for surgery to clear those margins. One group of 7 in Edmonton Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 ordered me to skip the surgery and go straight to radiation. Thank God I left. The other group of 33 entertained my request due to a second pathologist who faught for me on the tumor board. Again the stars lined up in a critical moment. If the request for a second pathology review had gone to a different pathologist I would likely have never had been allowed another surgery to correct margins. Another big pocket of 1.2 billion cancer cells were removed. I also got super lucky with my oncologist. Right now I am fantastic but I shudder to think what would have happened if I never got involved. I am very appreciative of those people who played key roles at the time and literally saved my life. Also, as strange as it sounds, this experience has ignited in me a great love of science, and health and nutrition. 🥰