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Monday, November 09, 2009 rajashree asks

Q: Can this be brest cancer?

I am aged about 29.Got married 4yrs ago. have a 2yr 11 month son, i have a lump in my left brest for the past 3 yrs.it has not grown and is rubbery and movable.recently i have noticed white colour discharge from both of my brests .and i also feel pain only when pressed.or else nothing.2 doctors have checked it manually and they say it is just a cyst. i m also taking oral contraceptive pills. can anybody explain this ? Moreover nobody in my family ever had breast cancer.(both parents side).

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11/10/09 4:10am

Hi - Discharge from both breasts is quite common during childbearing years. A movable lump that you've had for 3 years sounds very much like fibrocystic change, a fairly common condition in women your age that produces overgrown (but not cancerous) breast tissue. Since your doctors have told you this is a cyst (a part of fibrocystic change), yet you're still worried, why not ask for an ultrasound? That would prove pretty definitively if it was a cyst. Good luck - PJH

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