HELP!! Need advise!

[Nursingangel]

I am a 33 year old LPN, with a family history of a maternal aunt with breast cancer, a paternal aunt with breast cancer and my Paternal grandmother died of uterain and ovarin cancer. In 2000, I found a lump in my left breast and had a ultrasound. the Dx was fibrocystic disease. Last week after speaking with my GYN we decied that since I would be 34 this year and with my family history we would start doing mammo's. Well guess what it came back abnormal. calcifcations in my L breast that they wanted mag views.:uhoh21: So this morning I went back and had new veiws. The report came back that I have some lose "clusters" of about 3-4 calcifcations close to the medial chest wall but that they are all losely clousterd, what ever that meens,. They recoumend that I wait 6 months and redo the mammo. The only thing is that I am just not sure that I am comfortable doing that. I know that Calcifications are extremly comain and that most of the time they are compleatly benign. But I am a single mom and WHAT if I am that young woman that it is malignate. I just don't know that I could live for the next six months with over my head. Please tell me your experances. I know that you can't give me "medical advise" or make this discion for me I just need to talk with some nurses that have been where I am or have pt where I am and what they did. I don't want to tell the Doc's that I work with every day that I don't trust there jugment but I just don't know if I should wait. Please give me some advise.:bowingpur Please excuse my spelling I can barly see the screen so I am sure it is bad.

[Blee O'Myacin, BSN, RN]

You need to see a doctor. You know that. Go somewhere other than your workplace then you don't have to tell anyone that you know. There is no use worrying over nothing, and there is no time to waste if it's "something".

Good Luck -

Blee

[ecnav]

calcifications is the body's way to 'wall off' a potential problem. not something to get terribly excited about but absolutely get a second opinion from a separate practice that uses a different radiographic imaging system. in other words, new practice and better - if possible - mammogram, 3 months from today. in the meanwhile, educate yourself and network - communicate your concerns among trusted friends and associates.