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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Dec 7, 2022 | Replies (27)
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trixie1313
I also have hard areas in my breast. My breasts were already extremely dense and now I wonder how I could ever feel a lump if the cancer comes back. I only went to 2 physical therapy sessions because I was concerned with being in a small room for 60 minutes with the therapist in the middle of a pandemic. We both wore masks but it still concerned me. ( I am 74 with a primary immune disease.) I am doing the exercises she gave me a couple of times a day but it is still painful.
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katrina123
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@katrina123
I'm 69 and have lung issues in addition to cancer so can understand your concern of going in to the physical therapist, but with both of you wearing masks you should be fine. I had also been concerned due to dense breasts and missing anything else and after first lumpectomy asked for an MRI of the breasts because I was concerned there could be something going on in the other breast and the surgeon approved this. I'm glad I did because that is where they found a very small second lesion in the same breast in a different location which was found to be neuroendocrine cancer which very rarely shows up in the breast. My regular doctor and oncologist would not order the breast MRI, it was only when I spoke to the breast surgeon that she felt is was fine to go ahead.