Who knew complacency could be such an enemy? Well, I know now! It was never going to be me that would be the "1 in 8 women" to get breast cancer. No one on either side of my family had EVER had any kind of cancer and frankly, I didn't have enough breast tissue to get breast cancer. My cup size was a double AA (incidentally, the same size as my shoe width!). Well, the truth WAS out there - the locations of the two most common forms of breast cancer are found in breasts of every size - the ductal and lobular.
Most interesting and what I want to tell women everywhere is that in my ductal carcinoma - the breast lump WAS NOT MY FIRST SYMPTOM! My first symptom was a retracting nipple, which is, I suppose, one of the manifestations of the literature's "nipple changes". As women, we know all about nipple change - we see changes in puberty, arousal, pregnancy, aging, nursing - heck, even when we wear too tight of a bra we can see nipple change! I did, so, I thought nothing of my flat nipple, which preceded my discovery of a lump by several months.
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