In a message dated 6/17/02 3:36:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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I have been doing some research regarding breast findings during pregnancy
and this is what I have come to find out.

A breast lump, that lasts longer than a week, in a woman who is NOT
lactating, is cancer until proven otherwise.   The fact that she is pregnant
is relevent only because it complicates matters.  She should see her
HCPpromptly and needs at the very least an Ultrasound of the breast.

In my research I am  finding some interesting causes of breast lumps in
pregnancy (although there may be more).   Granulomatous mastitis-which is
benign, breast cancer  (which by the way CAN And DOES occur BILATERALLY in
pregnancy),  and of course mastitis with or without an abscesses.  Chris
Betzold NP IBCLC MSN


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