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Breast Abnormalities and Other Symptoms General questions about breast health and possible symptoms. |
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| 1/18/2011 | I maybe jumping to conclusions but I need some answers now to help ease my concerns. While doing a test to see if I had any blood clots in my lungs they discovered that I had a size 11mm subpectoral node on the left side. Could this be cancerous? Or, just some infection of some kind? | ||
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| 1/18/2011 | technically, it could be either, but given you are i assume without symptoms of cancer elsewhere then good chance it is infection/virus related. the radiologist looking at the images should be able to provide some guessimation by the contour of its edges if it looks worrisome or not. | ||
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