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What are warning signs of triple negative breast cancer recurrence?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 15, 2023 | Replies (66)Comment receiving replies
Hi. My diagnosis is not triple negative BUT I had a change in the color of my Areola that led me to my BC diagnosis. Essentially when I lifted my right arm to apply deodorant one day, while facing a mirror, I noticed that the areola depigmented ( from pinkish to pale yellow/blue) arm down and returned to pinkish. Did not happen on left breast. Persisted! Got an earlier than scheduled mammo AND ultrasound AND breast exam = breast doc/surgeon ( of 35 years) did not understand the symptom and never encountered the symptom SO all good? Persisted… two months later I had an MRI = 2 tumors and one Ax node light up!
The de pigmentation of the nipple was due to a positional occlusion of the blood vessel being impinged by the one tumor when I lifted my arm overhead.
Hope this is helpful as we self exam ourselves through our journey.
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Thanks for your remarks. in my case the colour difference has vanished in 1 week and there is no visible changes now. Hoping there is no complications as such.My routine mamo and check up is scheduled in early September
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Congratulations on the "persisted" verb. It would be great to be able to rely on doctors to have perfect knowledge at all times, but unreasonable when medical knowledge expands exponentially every day. The access to the internet can be our second-best friend. We're our first ...