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Expert: - 8/23/2010


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Hello,

I have what i think is a skin tag on my left nipple and i keep getting stabbing pains all through my breast and collar bone which seems to start from the skin tag.

My nipple is also sore and sensetive and i have noticed that the skin tag has gotten bigger than it was and my left breast is slightly larger than the other one there is also a scar next to the skin tag but i dont know where it came from? could you help me?

I dont know what is wrong.

Other info: im 19 years old, female, slightly overweight but otherwise in good health

Thanks.

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At your age cancers there are VERY rare! Also breast pains as you describe them are hardly associated with breast cancer. That one breast may be bigger or smaller than the other is also rather common. Still you seem to have a problem. But without an examination it is impossible to tell what in fact it is though a cancer is from the reasons given above highly unlikely. So I strongly suggest that you let a doctor check you! Good luck!





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