Breast Cancer/sharp pains

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Expert: - 9/25/2008


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so for the last few weeks I have been feeling a VERY sharp pain in my right breast , off to the side near the middle of my chest. Sometimes it comes just randomly and sometimes if i lean to the left, it comes allot stronger when I laugh or take short, deep breaths . After this happens my breast tends to itch & feel irritated & it pulses with the pain still there but faintly. I have felt my breast and it is not as soft as my right and is very warm . No I am not pregnant , someone asked if I was lactating. Also if it helps I am 14 . It gets almost rock hard to the upper left side but it doesn't quite feel like a lump but my father has not yet made a doctors appointment and I would like to know if this is a sign of breast cancer .

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At your age breast cancer is almost unheard of. So any breast cancer risk at your age would be microscopically small. Even so some of your symptoms should be checked by a dr. while the rest probably are due to normal hormonal changes. But I do not think you have a breast cancer.

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