Hi, I would like to know: 1. How fast does cancerous lump in breast grow? e.g. from pea size to small grape size in months? 1-2 years? etc.... 2. What about non-cancerous lumps that resemble cancer (not the cysts but maybe fibroadenoma that does not have cyclic feature)? Thank you! Thank you Dave. I hope your wife will recover soon.
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It depends on the type of cancer that makes up the tumor. Some are hormones dependent and some are not. My wife felt a lump in her breast in December of '07. She forgot about it and had it checked late June of '08. So within 6 months it was diagnosed at stage 2B. Which means that it had grown to 4.78 cm. (about the size of a fifty-cent piece). The team of doctors that looked at the mammogram thought the tumor was very aggressive. It was a "triple-negative" tumor and did not depend upon hormones to grow. So, it grew faster. Once it gets to a certain size it begins to spread to other parts of the body. My wife's cancer moved into her lymph nodes. They found a non-cancerous lump in her other breast. It had not grown at all. I hope this helps, it just depends upon the conditions that are there that are ripe for the tumor to grow for example how much sugars does the patient digest? Tumors love sugar...it speeds up cell division.
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