Can You Tell If I Have Breast Cancer?
Both of my breast are slightly purple, there is a lump in both of them but the lump is in the same exact spot in both breasts, they are in a circle around my breasts. My skin sometimes gets rigid kind of like the skin of and orange. Also my breasts feel warm and sometimes sting.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
You posted a few days ago asking if you had breast cancer; here is the answer I gave you then:
At 13 your chances of having breast cancer are as close to zero as makes no difference.
Breast cancer is mainly a disease of ageing – 80% of those diagnosed with it are over 50, it’s rare in women under 40 and almost unheard of in under 25s.
The American Cancer Society and other cancer organisations recommend that women begin breast self-examination at the age of 20. Before that, any changes – including lumps – are almost certainly hormonal.
Most breast lumps (even in women over 50) aren’t cancerous, and most cancerous breast lumps don’t hurt; most people diagnosed with breast cancer have felt no pain at all.
You don’t have breast cancer symptoms; what you describe is almost certainly hormonal.
Stop worrying and talk to your mother about this; if you feel you can’t talk to your mother, talk to your school nurse. She will be used to concerns like this and will take you seriously, and she should be able to reassure you