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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry for what you’re going through.

I would not fret too much about the missed mammograms. One of the controversies about mammograms is that they often DON’T show the most aggressive breast cancers (MBC). [/quote]

I have another data point to share, my aunt had had a "clean" mammogram six months before her breast cancer was discovered.  She found a lump herself.  [/quote]

Second data point (NP here).  I had seven years of mammograms, all of which were clean.  My BC was found during another exam after I had swelling under my arm.  Not all BC presents as a lump.  Ten percent of all BCs are invasive lobular carcinoma (LC) and are not "lumpy", they are spread like a spiderweb and one of the hardest kinds of BC to detect.  What mammograms typically don't show are the lobular BCs, and it's not because they're aggressive or non-aggressive but rather how the cells aggregate (thus harder to find).

We've spent some much money on pink ribbons, socks, and awareness campaigns and telling people to look for lumps.  I always wonder how many people walk around with ILC for years and go undetected.  My doctor told me mine was probably there for 6-8 years.[/quote]

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