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Anyone have bleeding from the nipple while doing radiation treatment?

Posted by shelia71 @shelia71, May 10, 2021

Hello Anyone ever have bleeding from the nipple while doing radiation treatment? Always after I take my bra off. Radiology team and doctor say they never saw this before which worries me. Non invasive cancer in the situ. I’ll post photos of what was on my gown. Thanks.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | May 15, 2021

@shelia71, I can imagine that this is very worrisome, especially since your radiation team has never seen this before. How often are you getting radiation? Does it happen every time? What did they suggest to do? Are they changing the radiation dose or target?

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zeerj | @zeerj | Jan 4, 2023

I was diagnosed with her2 positive, right breast with positive lymph nodes. Had perjeta and herceptin, followed by bilateral nipple sparing mastectomy on 9/27/22 with spacers(my choice to remove left breast), 3wks radiation on right side. On my 4th treatment with TDM1. Yesterday I saw blood discharge stain on my bra from the left breast that didn’t have cancer. Not too much I would say a drop or two. I was seeing little white discharge before. My oncologist wasn’t concerned with that. She scheduled me for ultrasound due to the blood discharge. Has anyone experienced this? I am too stressed out since this is how cancer on the right side was initially diagnosed. Why would I have the blood discharge if I had mastectomy?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jan 8, 2023
In reply to @zeerj "I was diagnosed with her2 positive, right breast with positive lymph nodes. Had perjeta and herceptin,..." + (show)
@zeerj

I was diagnosed with her2 positive, right breast with positive lymph nodes. Had perjeta and herceptin, followed by bilateral nipple sparing mastectomy on 9/27/22 with spacers(my choice to remove left breast), 3wks radiation on right side. On my 4th treatment with TDM1. Yesterday I saw blood discharge stain on my bra from the left breast that didn’t have cancer. Not too much I would say a drop or two. I was seeing little white discharge before. My oncologist wasn’t concerned with that. She scheduled me for ultrasound due to the blood discharge. Has anyone experienced this? I am too stressed out since this is how cancer on the right side was initially diagnosed. Why would I have the blood discharge if I had mastectomy?

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@zeerj, I moved your question about blood discharge to this discussion that @shelia71 started on the same topic.

- Anyone have bleeding from the nipple while doing radiation treatment? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/noninvasive-breast-cancer-bleeding/

I'm glad to hear that you oncologist schedule an ultrasound to investigate. When will you have the ultrasound? Has the bleeding stopped?

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zeerj | @zeerj | Jan 9, 2023
In reply to @colleenyoung "@zeerj, I moved your question about blood discharge to this discussion that @shelia71 started on the..." + (show)
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@zeerj, I moved your question about blood discharge to this discussion that @shelia71 started on the same topic.

- Anyone have bleeding from the nipple while doing radiation treatment? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/noninvasive-breast-cancer-bleeding/

I'm glad to hear that you oncologist schedule an ultrasound to investigate. When will you have the ultrasound? Has the bleeding stopped?

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Thanks @colleenyoung. I had an ultrasound this past Fri. The radiologist dr didn’t see anything abnormal but was concerned of the bloody discharge. He recommended an MRI which I’m waiting to be scheduled. Yes, I haven’t seen any blood since the one instance.

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