Re: Possible Fibroadenoma

March 13, 2008

Good luck and thanks for the info...on a side note back one year ago

when my lymph nodes where swelling up on my neck I had a ton of blood work

done and the only thing that looked unusual was a positive for a possible past

Epstein -Barr infection. I also here EB is a common link in Stills patients.

Mandi

Florida

In a message dated 3/13/2008 2:47:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

a_cone@... writes:

I received a letter from the women's center regarding my mammogram

saying they needed to do additional images on my left breast.

Everyone told me that's normal for a first time mammogramm, esp wtih

large breasts. So i went today. They did the studies and then a

dr. reviewed them and then they decided to go ahead and do an

ultrasound. The radiologist came in then and showed me where there

is a 7mm mass in my left breast. Said I would have never felt it,

it's too small and that it's got a 90% chance of being benign.

Called a fibroadenoma.

I alraedy had a gyn appt scheduled for Monday beacuse i have a tiny

little cyst elsewhere that i've had for a few months that isn't

going away. So he'll go over the report on my breast then too, and

we'll schedule a biopsy.

When the radiologist told me it was 7mm I laughed and said that I

recently had a kidney stone of that size removed. He thought that

was funny, lol.

I am reading up on these and, very interesting, " Conversely,

fibroadenomas may grow rapidly during pregnancy, during hormone

replacement therapy, or during immunosuppression, in which case they

can simulate malignancy. In immunosuppressed patients, the etiology

of multiple or growing fibroadenomas appears to be related to

Epstein-Barr virus infection. "

Interesting stuff. I'll let you know what the doc says Monday.

Houston

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