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I had a mastectomy three years ago for IBC. Now I am getting small red bumps on the incision.

diane
11/01/09
diane
Topics:Breast Cancer Symptoms

I ad a mastectomy for IBC three years ago. Now I am getting small red bumps on the incision.  Is this a recurrence of breast cancer?

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Phyllis Johnson
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Phyllis Johnson grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. Parents of...

Sunday, November 01, 2009

It might be a condition sometimes referred to as skin mets where the cancer returns in the skin.  Of course, it could be almost any other kind of skin problem developing in your sensitive post-treatment incision area.  Call your doctor on Monday and get an appointment to find out for sure what it going on.  I hope its something simple to treat.  If it is skin mets, they are less dangerous than other forms of metastasis.

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