Intraductal papilloma

I've just been diagnosed with an intraductal papilloma in my right breast for the second time in eight years. I'm 40 years old. The first time I had some nipple discharge and was treated with a microducoctomy. This time a discovered a lump about three weeks ago. I've just had a mammogram, ultrasound, FNA, and thick needle biopsy. Surgeon says the biopsy came out well but he is somewhat concerned about the FNA result. I am now waiting for some cultures (I think) to be done. Results next Tuesday.

Surgeon also says that either lump is wholly beingn or there is some malignancy that wd be at the lower end of the danger scale. In the first case, he will just excise the lump, in the second he will take some lymph nodes to see if anything has spread.

Apparently, papillomas are one of the rarer kinds of breast disease, he says they belong to a 5% group, so I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has experienced this type breast problem.

I'm just a layperson but perhaps it will help your friend if I attempt to put things more in context. 8 years ago I was diagnosed with an intraductal papilloma (IP) because of a nipple discharge, I was told it was harmless but the milk duct in question was removed.

The lump I discovered at the beginning of February was initially found to be the same but, the surgeon explained, the fine needle test indicated that part of its surface may longer be benign, hence the move from IP to papillary adenocarcinoma (PAC). Insofar as I can understand part of it is
IP but part has become PAC. I was told that this type of cancer is

is apparently that they are less harmful than other types.

Please note, I am no expert and what I say above may be completely wrong, everything is happening very fast and this is only what I believe I have gleaned from what I have been told.

No-one else has answered my previous posts

Hope this helps

María

Your reply to Maria caught my eye. I have recently had a mammogram and ultrsound and will have a wire biopsy done on April 7th. Both the radiologist and surgeon, (who will do the wire biopsy) have already told me that they expect the area of calcification in question to be benign and at worst "pre-cancerous". I can understand why you are confused. Sounds like your friend was expecting a "benign" diagnosis and now is wondering what is really going on...reminds me that even though I've been told that the area in question is most probably benign, that I must remember there is always a chance that it won't be.

Is there any chance your friend could schedule another app't with her family doctor to get some more info?

Sending healing vibes to your friend,

Thank you for the healing vibes and the reply.

When this first started and she mentioned papillomas (after the ultrasound), I e-mailed her http://imaginis.com/breasthealth/benign.asp
Hers is not involving the nipple, so we were "sailing along" thinking it was just benign until this "atypical" came up after the "wire biopsy" and the speeding up of the tests and surgery date occurred.

I now suspect that her situation is similar to yours (possibly precancerous, but I don't know that for certain). She has Lupus (extreme fatigue and joint pain) and fibro and asthma and allergy to rubber/latex, so she has to take in her own ceramic mask and plastic tubing for the anesthetic or for oxygen because of her asthma? Maybe for the asthma, because it sounds like they will give her a "twilight med" as opposed to general anesthetic.

She sees him tomorrow for pre-anesthetic discussion/forms etc and is trying to find a way to back out of this. So she saw the surgeon today and surgery is booked for Monday. She tried to wiggle out of it by asking "since it's thought to be benign and I've had lumps for years, can I just skip this and keep the lump? " and the surgeon replied "certainly not".

There's no point (nor time) to go to her family doctor because they've already told her that the biopsy of all the tissue to be removed will tell them whether it's totally benign (or not), so the sooner it is done, the better, so we can all breathe a sigh of relief and move on to healing.

I wish you well Catherine, perhaps we'll all be celebrating in a very short time.

Thanks for the link and the good wishes, J...pls keep us updated re your friend...I'd definitely like to think we'll all be celebrating soon!