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    I'm theorizing.   I have to wait almost two weeks before I get into the breast center.   Hopefully by that time the two lumps will be gone!    I've been calming myself by looking at all the possibilities, theorizing and then figuring out how I could/would deal.    I just found that IIA description something hard to visualize as a layperson.   How does one diagnose breast cancer when a tumor isn't found?  And then how would that be treated?   In my case, I've been living with this bloody drip for four years now and even though I know within the diagnostic decision tree of a breast cancer center, not being diagnosed with anything is good news, the constant very small drip keeps me hyper aware.  They've never been able to do a galacto-whatever because the amount I get from my breast is so small. I've been told I don't fit the profile of a suspicious bleeding duct because it's so small -- and I believe that intellectually.  But other explanations they try to come up with just aren't true either.  I don't engage in rough play, etc. etc.   When they can't find an answer, they try to figure out how it's me.  *I* know it's not me, my behavior, that's causing this.   So finding the two lumps this weekend did really freak me out.  And I'm calming myself by looking at Stage II and chanting things like "I can live with a 92% survival average"    I'm 41 with two children, ages 3 and 8.   Does this help?   Suzy