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I second what paulam says, don't let any doctor dismiss your concerns about your body for any reason. I found a lump at the end of last February and because of my age and family history (breast cancer in great aunts, other cancers for parents and grandparents) they blew me off and it took my ear nose and throat surgeon to take my medical concerns seriously.
He refused to do the surgery until we knew and sent me to the cancer center in Spokane he trusted. I don't know what the hell happened but my medical records weren't sent, no mammogram was scheduled, and it took almost FOUR MONTHS from the time I found the lump until I got mammograms. I'm thrilled to not have any malignant growths but if I had I'd have lost precious treatment time.
The most annoying this was that the doctors who blew me off were women and then I found other women my age who had the same treatments, and two of them weren't as lucky as me with their diagnoses.
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